What color are school buses?

[Free4Life11]

Yellow? Or orange?

I have had this debate with my sister for years. She says yellow, I say orange. My entire family says yellow, I still say orange.

http://www.vijayabodach.com/photogallery/Max School Bus Large Web view.jpg

http://www.catskill.net/walton/school bus.jpg

That just doesn't look like YELLOW to me.

 

[magicfan]

I say yellow.

This reminds me of an ongoing debate about american cheese. I say that stuff is orange. Sure looks more orange than yellow.

 

[tar heel]

Yellow. When I was in elementary school, however, North Carolina school buses were orange. Virginia buses were yellow. My school had kids from both states, so we had two colors of buses.

 

[Free4Life11]

I still say ORANGE.

 

[ksjayhawks]

Yellow.

 

[HeatherH]

Guess you're color blind then, they are YELLOW.

NHTSA's recommendation that school buses be painted yellow is found in Highway Safety Program Guideline 17, "Pupil Transportation Safety" (copy enclosed). Guideline 17 consists of recommendations for State pupil transportation safety programs.

 

[Imzadi]

I think everyone thinks of them as being yellow because traditionally they were called "yellow school buses" and they were painted yellow as opposed to the more higher visibility yellow-orange today.

It's kind of like how blueberries are "blue". And white wine is "white".

 

[pattyT]

YELLOW

 

[bicker]

The color was known, while I was growing up, as National School Bus Chrome.

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[Marseeya]

It's more of a golden yellow, but still yellow nonetheless.

 

[Pooh67_68]

How does Orangish Yellow sound or Yellowish Orange

 

[grinningghost]

Technically, yellowish-orange - but I call them yellow. DH grew up in the city where everyone calls school buses "the cheese".

 

[Madaboutthemouse]

Definitely Yellow!

 

[Pam]

They call it mellow YELLOW!!

 

[Nite0wl71]

I have only seen yellow

 

[Mermaid02]

Orange-yellow. Hey, it's a crayon!

 

[dianeschlicht]

Orange-yellow. Basically yellow with an orange cast! How's that for non-commital?

 

[momof3disneyholics]

Yellow

 

[mickeyfan2]

Yellow

 

[eeyoreiscool]

Ours are definately yellow with white tops.