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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People are doing all kinds of justifications to why school buses don't have seatbelts, but why don't regular public transportation buses have seatbelts?

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Because they are friggin tanks. 63000 pounds of you can't hurt shit unless you are bigger. Which in a fixed route system is rare. Because bigger things are on the freeway and busses are on surface streets.

I was a bus driver. I have been in two accidents. One a car was upset and rammed my rear left panel. Took off his bumper. It didn't even chip my paint and no one was harmed in the coach.

It's up to the operator almost always if their passengers are harmed. There are exceptions. But if you are operating at the speed limit and just on the designed route there are few times where people will be in harms way inside the bus. In fact to make good time for the route and the passengers it's usually safe to go 5 mph under the posted speed limit.