What is the name of your state? GA
Our local public schools reopened Monday and a bus is now picking up and dropping off a new kid in our neighborhood. I have a sodded lawn and where my front yard meets the road there is a curve. The school bus has taken to using part of my lawn as a shortcut to avoid having to turn the bus on the curve. As of Wednesday night, there is about a 70' long and 2-3' wide area where the bus has completely destroyed the lawn where it meets the road. It is nothing but a big mud hole now. I contacted the transportation portion of the school system and provided pictures of the damage and of the school bus doing this, but their operations department tells me that since this lawn meets the road this area is in the "Right of Way" and they have a right to do that. My question is in right of way issues, does that give the county a right to damage your property at will? Is there anything I can do to file a claim with the county or school system or am I just out of luck?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Andy Lang
Our local public schools reopened Monday and a bus is now picking up and dropping off a new kid in our neighborhood. I have a sodded lawn and where my front yard meets the road there is a curve. The school bus has taken to using part of my lawn as a shortcut to avoid having to turn the bus on the curve. As of Wednesday night, there is about a 70' long and 2-3' wide area where the bus has completely destroyed the lawn where it meets the road. It is nothing but a big mud hole now. I contacted the transportation portion of the school system and provided pictures of the damage and of the school bus doing this, but their operations department tells me that since this lawn meets the road this area is in the "Right of Way" and they have a right to do that. My question is in right of way issues, does that give the county a right to damage your property at will? Is there anything I can do to file a claim with the county or school system or am I just out of luck?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Andy Lang