FCPS bus route map

[Anonymous]

We are making an offer for a townhome in McLean zoned to Kent Gardens Elementary School. I am curious what is the closet school bus to this property. Is there a school bus map from this past year that one could share so I can use it as reference? I can't find any bus route maps on the FCPS transportation website. Thanks so much.

[Anonymous]

You won’t find a map anywhere. Transportation routes are determined by where students live and may change from year to year. In mid August, transportation will upload all the addresses and develop a route. Families then receive the bus stop location and pick up time.

[Anonymous]

PP is right, but the bus stops that serve groups of kids don't tend to move around from year to year. Ask someone in the prospective neighborhood where the bus stop was last school year. The timing could be very different year to year, so don't count on that info being right.

[Anonymous]

The bus stops for the townhouse neighborhoods I know in KG’s district are where the exit road meets the main road on your way out of the complex. For example it could be on Kirby or Westmoreland.

Ask some of the neighbors.

[Anonymous]

The original poster here. Thanks so much for the replies. Very helpful. Much appreciated.

[Anonymous]

They don’t publish bus stops for security reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bus stops for the townhouse neighborhoods I know in KG’s district are where the exit road meets the main road on your way out of the complex. For example it could be on Kirby or Westmoreland.

Ask some of the neighbors.

This is the case for most townhouse communities unless they are very large and have a main cut through street.

[Anonymous]

They probably don't publish the map because they don't want taxpayers to see the ridiculous AAP school routes that travel miles just to pick up a handful of kids. Absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don’t publish bus stops for security reasons.

Other school districts make their bus routes public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t publish bus stops for security reasons.

Other school districts make their bus routes public.

I guess those other school districts don’t take safety as seriously as FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They don’t publish bus stops for security reasons.

Other school districts make their bus routes public.

I guess those other school districts don’t take safety as seriously as FCPS.

How is it unsafe? What safety violations have happened as a result of public school bus routes being made available to the public?

[Anonymous]

When my oldest was in Kindergarten, we received a handout that listed all the bus stops. That fall the DMV had the sniper issue. After that, we only received the one spot for our local bus stop. They stopped making the routes public after that. That may have been the impetus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my oldest was in Kindergarten, we received a handout that listed all the bus stops. That fall the DMV had the sniper issue. After that, we only received the one spot for our local bus stop. They stopped making the routes public after that. That may have been the impetus.

That doesn't exactly seem like a well-reasoned long-term response to an exceptional incident.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my oldest was in Kindergarten, we received a handout that listed all the bus stops. That fall the DMV had the sniper issue. After that, we only received the one spot for our local bus stop. They stopped making the routes public after that. That may have been the impetus.

OMG your oldest is like 24 or 25? I remember that year too. My 2nd one was in K that year, he's now 25. I only have one more in the school system

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When my oldest was in Kindergarten, we received a handout that listed all the bus stops. That fall the DMV had the sniper issue. After that, we only received the one spot for our local bus stop. They stopped making the routes public after that. That may have been the impetus.

That doesn't exactly seem like a well-reasoned long-term response to an exceptional incident.

It was the trigger to cause them to make a different decision. I don’t think people need to know all the bus stops. Just call the school or ask the neighbors, it isn’t that difficult.