Takoma Park residents, where do your kids go to HS?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s 2.6 miles. That seems pretty close to me.

It's about 5 miles from Blair to the southernmost part of TP.

From the Takoma Metro, it's about 3.9 miles to Blair. The next closest HS is BCC, which is about 5 miles.

No, the next closest HS is Northwood.

That's incorrect. According to Google Maps, BCC is 5.3 miles from the Takoma Metro, whereas Northwood is 5.4.

DP. According to Google Maps:
4.6 miles walking route between Takoma Metro and Northwood
4.7 miles walking route between Takoma Metro and B-CC

Not sure why you post false information about something that is easily disprovable but according to the REAL Google Maps:

4.9 miles from Takoma Metro to BCC
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Takoma,+327+Cedar+St+NW,+Washington,+DC+20012/Bethesda+Chevy+Chase+High+School,+East-West+Highway,+Bethesda,+MD/@38.9855077,-77.0941183,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7c884a4be7d03:0xc5ab7e7ce2b65943!2m2!1d-77.0179073!2d38.9756131!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7c96f9dde8bd1:0x5220ad74c172ab8e!2m2!1d-77.0885041!2d38.9864928!3e0?entry=ttu

5.2 miles from Takoma Metro to Northwood
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Takoma,+327+Cedar+St+NW,+Washington,+DC+20012/Northwood+High+School,+University+Boulevard+West,+Silver+Spring,+MD/@39.0048862,-77.0507922,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7c884a4be7d03:0xc5ab7e7ce2b65943!2m2!1d-77.0179073!2d38.9756131!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7cf6f82491595:0x959f2f69d5f73ef0!2m2!1d-77.0226649!2d39.0348484!3e0?entry=ttu

Why are you arguing about the distance from a metro station that’s not even in Maryland let alone Montgomery county? The distance from the Takoma metro in DC is oh absolutely zero relevance to any of this discussion about Takoma Park which is a city in Montgomery county Maryland not a neighborhood in DC.

It's 50 ft from MD and central to the very heart of Takoma Park.

It’s in the edge of Takoma park and certainly not “central to the heart of the city” given that it’s in a completely different city. Only someone who doesn’t live here would say something like that.

It's adjacent to the city center which is why its central.

Come on. Look at any map of the city of Takoma park and it is on the edge and not central. There is no “city center” in TKPK though you could argue that the community center is one and that’s not the same location as the metro. What you are referring to is downtown Takoma park which, again, is on the very southern edge of the city of Takoma park and therefore not central.

You come on. It is the very heart of Takoma Park. It is where the downtown is located and central to the area.

They don't seem to know anything about Takoma which straddles both Moco and DC. Anyway, South SS is even closer to BCC. Think it's an under 10-minute drive for us but we're just east of the park.

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Anonymous wrote:There's also the question of the Purple Line, which will make it much easier to get from DTSS to downtown Bethesda (BCC) once it's (finally) open. If they were smart, they would have high schoolers use the Purple Line rather than buses to get from some neighborhoods in and near DTSS to BCC. There will be lots of neighborhoods that are walkable to Purple Line stations.

Have the stops for PL been finalized? So families can figure out if they want to move, how close kid will be from PL stop to their school if they need to use PL to get to/from school.

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Anonymous wrote:There's also the question of the Purple Line, which will make it much easier to get from DTSS to downtown Bethesda (BCC) once it's (finally) open. If they were smart, they would have high schoolers use the Purple Line rather than buses to get from some neighborhoods in and near DTSS to BCC. There will be lots of neighborhoods that are walkable to Purple Line stations.

Have the stops for PL been finalized? So families can figure out if they want to move, how close kid will be from PL stop to their school if they need to use PL to get to/from school.

Yes

https://purplelinemd.com/overview

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Anonymous wrote:There's also the question of the Purple Line, which will make it much easier to get from DTSS to downtown Bethesda (BCC) once it's (finally) open. If they were smart, they would have high schoolers use the Purple Line rather than buses to get from some neighborhoods in and near DTSS to BCC. There will be lots of neighborhoods that are walkable to Purple Line stations.

Have the stops for PL been finalized? So families can figure out if they want to move, how close kid will be from PL stop to their school if they need to use PL to get to/from school.

Yes

https://purplelinemd.com/overview

The purple line stops are finalized, but the MS and HS boundary lines are not.