"Earl Purple" wrote

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In the USA, when a school bus is stopped they sometimes stop all
the
traffic around it, a bit over-zealously at times.

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In the USA, when a school bus stops to let children on or off, it
turns on big red flashing lights that mean all other traffic must
stop. That's pretty universal in every state. Almost any flashing
red light in the USA implies that you must stop.

Stopping for a school bus, unlike, say, parking too close to a fire
hydrant, is one of those laws that public opinion expects you to
obey. Americans don't like people putting their children at risk.

"A bit over zealously at times" I take it is a euphemism for "I got a
ticket once for not doing it"

Jeremy Parker