I do live in Monsey and I basically agree. Legally, if East Ramapo is giving you busing, you have to wait at a corner stop with your neighbors unless the driver is exceptionally nice and doesn’t get caught. It’s the private buses that do house stops because they aren’t bound by rules like this. (Full disclosure- my private high school bus did give me a house stop.) In theory, this is fine, but the problem shows up when buses stop every three feet on INCREDIBLY busy and/or narrow streets like 306 near Maple and the streets off of it (Phyllis, etc) where getting stuck behind a bus can mean fifteen minutes of delays. The house stops also often mean that very young children are running into the street to get their buses, which as a driver I find really scary. (When I had a corner stop on a very quiet block, we were never allowed to walk to the corner without an adult until we were in middle school, but when we had a house stop briefly due to a ridiculously nice driver, my mom was more chilled about it- the difference being that people in apartment houses on 306 are sending their kids onto super busy streets either way.)
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