NW APS parents, can we talk?

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed. Jamestown is actually more acesuble to more of the County than Tuckahoe or Nottingham. Right off Glebe. Major road this cuts down middle of county. Not in far NW

No it's not. Come by that part of Glebe Road at 8:30am and you'll see traffic backed up past Chesterbrook Rd, waiting to either cross Chain Bridge to DC or get to the GW Parkway north to the Beltway.

Buses don't have to go that far up Glebe to get to Jamestown, they can get off at Albemarle right past the Williamsburg intersection. Or if that's issue, they can cut over to Williamsburg via Old Dominion. There are actually a lot of access points from higher capacity roadways up there, more than I realized until I looked at the map again just now. It's a great site to handle heavy bus traffic.

I drive past there on my way to work and many days, traffic at the Chain Bridge is backed up all the way to Albemarle (Jamestown turn off). Albemarle is so backed up (major shortcut from McLean), that you cannot easily turn into the school. If you add buses plus all the parents driving their kids, it will be a big problem. At ATS, 40% of parents indicate they primarily drive their kids to school.

Jamestown barely has any walkers - mostly buses and drivers (on big lots). So how would this really change the traffic? What time are you talkin about?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agreed. Jamestown is actually more acesuble to more of the County than Tuckahoe or Nottingham. Right off Glebe. Major road this cuts down middle of county. Not in far NW

No it's not. Come by that part of Glebe Road at 8:30am and you'll see traffic backed up past Chesterbrook Rd, waiting to either cross Chain Bridge to DC or get to the GW Parkway north to the Beltway.

Buses don't have to go that far up Glebe to get to Jamestown, they can get off at Albemarle right past the Williamsburg intersection. Or if that's issue, they can cut over to Williamsburg via Old Dominion. There are actually a lot of access points from higher capacity roadways up there, more than I realized until I looked at the map again just now. It's a great site to handle heavy bus traffic.

I drive past there on my way to work and many days, traffic at the Chain Bridge is backed up all the way to Albemarle (Jamestown turn off). Albemarle is so backed up (major shortcut from McLean), that you cannot easily turn into the school. If you add buses plus all the parents driving their kids, it will be a big problem. At ATS, 40% of parents indicate they primarily drive their kids to school.

Okay so take them over to Old Dominion and then Williamsburg. I am through there all the time during rush hour (it's my neighborhood), we can handle the traffic.