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Violating school bus laws brings in a hefty fine of $500. And it seems the city of South Pasadena held a big fundraiser on Wednesday when police handed out 160 tickets totaling $80,000 to drivers on the six-lane Huntington Drive at Milan Ave. It was quite an elaborate sting, involving no schoolchildren but lots of lights and sirens described one driver who was cited to the LA Times. “It was a circus of lights and chaos,” she said of the sting that also involved from Alhambra, Monterey Park, San Gabriel, San Marino and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Temple City station. “No one was speeding, I mean people were literally just trying to figure out what was going on and what to do to to keep away from whatever the activity was. I thought I was being directed along with other motorists away from whatever it was that was happening.” One commenter at LA Times noted that the tickets are bogus noting that "VC Section 22454 states that the bus must be 'stopped for the purpose of loading or unloading any schoolchildren'."
Drivers Not Happy with Big School Bus Sting in South Pasadena
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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well, they're just being creative and this is the new source of revenue for the city.
That makes no sense, our taxes pay for school buses, and now our taxes will pay those tickets. So same money travels from one pocket to other. That is not going to raise revenue for any city, its like taking from one person to give it to the other.
"and now our taxes will pay those tickets"
what taxes??? You pay the traffic ticket from your own pocket. The money travels from your pocket to the city coffer. Get it!
It's worth mentioning that, to the best of my knowledge, the South Pasadena Unified School District doesn't have a bus system. So they set up a decoy bus in a town without school buses.
shady cops, shady practices
hopefully, they'll remain lucid, notate the code section above and fight the tickets.
It is amazing that all you read is the griping though not one of the comments said yes we blatantly break our motor vehicle code laws in this state. To bad they are getting dismissed because I am sure this is a daily occurrence by the drivers making the most gripes.