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A crossing guard (North American English), [1] lollipop man/lady/person (British, Irish, and Australian English), [2] [3] or school road patrol (New Zealand English) [4] is a traffic management personnel who is normally stationed on busy roadways to aid pedestrians.
Words with specific British English meanings that have different meanings in American and/or additional meanings common to both languages (e.g. pants, cot) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in American and British English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different meaning).
Playdays (known as Playbus until December 1989) is a British pre-school television programme which ran from 1988 to 1997 on Children's BBC.The show was the successor to Play School and, like its predecessor, was designed as an educational programme.
A bus-based public transport system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus system. Bus station or bus depot A structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. Bus stop A designated place where buses stop for passengers to board or alight from it. Business route or city route
The frequency of school bus-involved traffic accidents has raised concerns throughout China. In 2011, 41 primary and middle school students were killed in school bus accidents, including a collision between a kindergarten bus and a coal van in Gansu province. The nine-seat minibus was carrying 64 people: the driver, a teacher, and 62 children.
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A non-primary road sign near Bristol shows Guildford Rules patches.Road signs in the United Kingdom and in its associated Crown dependencies and overseas territories conform broadly to European design norms, with a number of exceptions: direction signs omit European route numbers, and road signs generally use the imperial system of units (miles and yards), unlike the rest of Europe (kilometres ...
Bus passenger numbers continued to decline in the 1960s. The Transport Act 1968 was an attempt to rationalise publicly owned bus services and provide a framework for the subsidy of uneconomic but socially necessary services. The Act: transferred the English and Welsh bus companies of the Transport Holding Company to the new National Bus Company