Metro proposes eliminating crosstown buses (D33-D34) serving Petworth/Crestwood/16th Street Heights

[Anonymous]

This is insane to me given all the students who commute west of the park public and private schools. If Metro eliminates these routes, there will be no way for students to get there. Those buses are absolutely packed. I don't get how the planners can be so unaware of how the city's students get to schools.

https://wmata.com/about/board/meetings/board-...Redesign-PH-Auth.pdf

People who care about this may want to start contacting Metro or their council members.

[Anonymous]

This will be a disaster. When I need to get into the officer early on some days, my kids take the D34.

[Anonymous]

Why do so many Crestwood and Petworth families send their kids to public schools west of Rock Creek Park, which are already overcrowded? Are the neighborhood schools so bad? If so, why not roll up your sleeves and improve them. That's how schools west of Rock Creek got better - parental involvement, pressure and holding people accountable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do so many Crestwood and Petworth families send their kids to public schools west of Rock Creek Park, which are already overcrowded? Are the neighborhood schools so bad? If so, why not roll up your sleeves and improve them. That's how schools west of Rock Creek got better - parental involvement, pressure and holding people accountable.

Cool. You first.

[Anonymous]

That's one way to alleviate crowding at west of the park schools. Kudos to metro for being part of the solution

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do so many Crestwood and Petworth families send their kids to public schools west of Rock Creek Park, which are already overcrowded? Are the neighborhood schools so bad? If so, why not roll up your sleeves and improve them. That's how schools west of Rock Creek got better - parental involvement, pressure and holding people accountable.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do so many Crestwood and Petworth families send their kids to public schools west of Rock Creek Park, which are already overcrowded? Are the neighborhood schools so bad? If so, why not roll up your sleeves and improve them. That's how schools west of Rock Creek got better - parental involvement, pressure and holding people accountable.

Revisionist af.

[Anonymous]

The parents can always bring their kids to school on e-cargo bikes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's one way to alleviate crowding at west of the park schools. Kudos to metro for being part of the solution

Absolutely.

I would also add that for the folks upset about Circulator cuts, if WMATA is going to take those routes they gotta cut service somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The parents can always bring their kids to school on e-cargo bikes.

LOL!

[Anonymous]

1- it’s a revision not an elimination
2 - lots of kids in Mt Pleasant, 16th St heights and Shepherd Park attend Deal and JR by right and will for 3-4 more years. The buses run 3x/day, m-f during the school year only. These aren’t making or breaking the WMATA budget.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The parents can always bring their kids to school on e-cargo bikes.

Better than driving.

[Anonymous]

With the renovation at Coolidge Senior High School, that option will look more and more attractive. Especially as it would be walkable to these neighborhoods.