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Usually no. I've only seen seatbelts in buses in Europe.

Probably not on a public bus, but they ask us to bring car seats for school field trips on a bus.

@MrsH: I ride busses like that a lot to visit my parents upstate. I don't know that they have seatbelts, but I'm sure you could call to check. I've seen kids on them, and never seen them in a car seat.

At one point this came up often on the Car Seats for the Littles FB group. Apparently a car seat is not needed on a bus because of compartmentalization. That is something a bus does that a car does not...

Eta: Not super recent, but this article does a good job explaining it. I am pretty sure on CSFTL they said both school and charter buses compartmentalize. http://www.momlogic.com/2009/09/why_dont_children_have_to_buckle_up_on_the_school_bus.php

@bisous: that's a great article, and I think buses are safe if there is a head on collision, but when you see school bus accidents in the news, they're either ones that rolled over or got hit from the side, which is where I feel buses just aren't safe enough without a belt.

@Andrea: I am curious about the field trip thing, what kind of buses are they?

@Andrea: and they have seatbelts?

@Andrea: alright, that's really good to know!
I feel like we need a second seat, I am thinking about getting another harness to booster model, especially for play dates and stuff.