Palisades High School bus for students ?

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Anonymous wrote:What would it take for WMATA to create a new bus line from tenleytown metro to macarthur high?

They did it for Deal. Can't see why not.

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Thank you I filled out the survey.

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Anonymous wrote:What would it take for WMATA to create a new bus line from tenleytown metro to macarthur high?

This line already exists. It’s the M4 > D6. Normally you have to change at Sibley, but the bus that reaches MacArthur at 8:20 AM on weekdays doesn’t change equipment. The number of the line on the bus changes from M4 to D6, but you can stay on board. Maybe they would want to run more of them, or run an express version, depending on demand, but they already have this line.

That bus runs along Nebraska. It is "inaccessible" for many nearby in-bounds students. Some areas of Spring Valley and Wesley Heights, which are separated by Nebraska, are a twenty-minute walk to Nebraska Ave.

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Anonymous wrote:Tenleytown and Wesley heights kids needed a bus and the d6 don't
Pick around this area .dcps is making very hard to get to the school. The city need to do something about this problem like deal did

This. To get to the new high school from just over a mile away, the kids would have to take three buses (mass ave, wisconsin ave, and then back out macarthur). It's a major deterrent for these neighborhood families.

If they are just over a mile away, they can walk.

Biking would be nice too, but bike infrastructure sucks over there.

Few students will live within a mile. We're in Wesley Heights, and Apple Maps puts the walk at 2 mi and 45 min (in the downhill direction). All of the Eaton boundary is significantly farther (3-5 miles).

That’s far. How do they get to Deal and JR now?

[Anonymous]

Families can look into setting up their own private shuttle bus service. W6 families have done that for years to get to charters. Obviously DC should provide bus service, but I wouldn’t let transit decide it for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Families can look into setting up their own private shuttle bus service. W6 families have done that for years to get to charters. Obviously DC should provide bus service, but I wouldn’t let transit decide it for you.

If my son gets a spot (we are IB for Deal/JR so we have transfer preference, but are not IB) I was going to post on the neighborhood list serv and see if any other families wanted to do a carpool to make it easier. My son is older for his grade so I am hoping by mid sophomore year he could be driving himself.

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Anonymous wrote:Families can look into setting up their own private shuttle bus service. W6 families have done that for years to get to charters. Obviously DC should provide bus service, but I wouldn’t let transit decide it for you.

If my son gets a spot (we are IB for Deal/JR so we have transfer preference, but are not IB) I was going to post on the neighborhood list serv and see if any other families wanted to do a carpool to make it easier. My son is older for his grade so I am hoping by mid sophomore year he could be driving himself.

Where would he park?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Families can look into setting up their own private shuttle bus service. W6 families have done that for years to get to charters. Obviously DC should provide bus service, but I wouldn’t let transit decide it for you.

If my son gets a spot (we are IB for Deal/JR so we have transfer preference, but are not IB) I was going to post on the neighborhood list serv and see if any other families wanted to do a carpool to make it easier. My son is older for his grade so I am hoping by mid sophomore year he could be driving himself.

Where would he park?

Not sure! I guess we will cross that bridge later.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Families can look into setting up their own private shuttle bus service. W6 families have done that for years to get to charters. Obviously DC should provide bus service, but I wouldn’t let transit decide it for you.

If my son gets a spot (we are IB for Deal/JR so we have transfer preference, but are not IB) I was going to post on the neighborhood list serv and see if any other families wanted to do a carpool to make it easier. My son is older for his grade so I am hoping by mid sophomore year he could be driving himself.

Where would he park?

If you live in Ward 3 and have residential parking, your parking sticker would work on all of the neighborhood streets around the school. Failing that there are a few streets around there that are unzoned.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Families can look into setting up their own private shuttle bus service. W6 families have done that for years to get to charters. Obviously DC should provide bus service, but I wouldn’t let transit decide it for you.

If my son gets a spot (we are IB for Deal/JR so we have transfer preference, but are not IB) I was going to post on the neighborhood list serv and see if any other families wanted to do a carpool to make it easier. My son is older for his grade so I am hoping by mid sophomore year he could be driving himself.

Where would he park?

If you live in Ward 3 and have residential parking, your parking sticker would work on all of the neighborhood streets around the school. Failing that there are a few streets around there that are unzoned.

Isn’t that slated to be removed and parking permits will soon be based on ANC? Can’t recall if that passed or the status of it. I think Henderson proposed it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Families can look into setting up their own private shuttle bus service. W6 families have done that for years to get to charters. Obviously DC should provide bus service, but I wouldn’t let transit decide it for you.

If my son gets a spot (we are IB for Deal/JR so we have transfer preference, but are not IB) I was going to post on the neighborhood list serv and see if any other families wanted to do a carpool to make it easier. My son is older for his grade so I am hoping by mid sophomore year he could be driving himself.

Where would he park?

If you live in Ward 3 and have residential parking, your parking sticker would work on all of the neighborhood streets around the school. Failing that there are a few streets around there that are unzoned.

ha ha the “neighbors” will go nuts at the increased traffic and utilization of “their” street parking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Families can look into setting up their own private shuttle bus service. W6 families have done that for years to get to charters. Obviously DC should provide bus service, but I wouldn’t let transit decide it for you.

If my son gets a spot (we are IB for Deal/JR so we have transfer preference, but are not IB) I was going to post on the neighborhood list serv and see if any other families wanted to do a carpool to make it easier. My son is older for his grade so I am hoping by mid sophomore year he could be driving himself.

Where would he park?

If you live in Ward 3 and have residential parking, your parking sticker would work on all of the neighborhood streets around the school. Failing that there are a few streets around there that are unzoned.

ha ha the “neighbors” will go nuts at the increased traffic and utilization of “their” street parking.

Let 'em.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tenleytown and Wesley heights kids needed a bus and the d6 don't
Pick around this area .dcps is making very hard to get to the school. The city need to do something about this problem like deal did

This. To get to the new high school from just over a mile away, the kids would have to take three buses (mass ave, wisconsin ave, and then back out macarthur). It's a major deterrent for these neighborhood families.

If they are just over a mile away, they can walk.

Biking would be nice too, but bike infrastructure sucks over there.

They'd have to walk on foxhall which is crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tenleytown and Wesley heights kids needed a bus and the d6 don't
Pick around this area .dcps is making very hard to get to the school. The city need to do something about this problem like deal did

This. To get to the new high school from just over a mile away, the kids would have to take three buses (mass ave, wisconsin ave, and then back out macarthur). It's a major deterrent for these neighborhood families.

If they are just over a mile away, they can walk.

Biking would be nice too, but bike infrastructure sucks over there.

Few students will live within a mile. We're in Wesley Heights, and Apple Maps puts the walk at 2 mi and 45 min (in the downhill direction). All of the Eaton boundary is significantly farther (3-5 miles).

That’s far. How do they get to Deal and JR now?

They don't go to deal.... they go to Hardy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tenleytown and Wesley heights kids needed a bus and the d6 don't
Pick around this area .dcps is making very hard to get to the school. The city need to do something about this problem like deal did

This. To get to the new high school from just over a mile away, the kids would have to take three buses (mass ave, wisconsin ave, and then back out macarthur). It's a major deterrent for these neighborhood families.

If they are just over a mile away, they can walk.

Biking would be nice too, but bike infrastructure sucks over there.

Few students will live within a mile. We're in Wesley Heights, and Apple Maps puts the walk at 2 mi and 45 min (in the downhill direction). All of the Eaton boundary is significantly farther (3-5 miles).

That’s far. How do they get to Deal and JR now?

They don't go to deal.... they go to Hardy.

Correct. But to get to J-R and (in the old days) Deal, they walk, bike, ride the bus, or get dropped off. Because J-R and Deal are much closer to them and are centrally located at the center of several major roads.

Macarthur is convenient to almost no one. You would never pick it for it's location, unless you were aiming to be accessible to VA and MD commuters.