D6 bus runing very late to pick up students

[Anonymous]

My teen daughter is heat-intolerant and faints and/or get an asthma attack when it's too hot. We're waiting for more medical testing, but in the meantime, every summer is spent in the air conditioning.

When she's an adult, I hope she moves somewhere much cooler!

[Anonymous]

I am sorry to hear that. My son also has asthma and it is incredible to see how some drivers are so unprofessional and they just sit in the buses and do They don't respect the schedule they're supposed to follow. There are a couple of drivers who are very professional, and I applaud them for their work in keeping things in order and not allowing scandals on the bus.

[Anonymous]

Some people need to be compassionate and realize that not everyone has parents who can pick them up and realize that no one is safe from pedophiles and drugs these days. Even some students sell to other students.

[Anonymous]

True.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe for you it isn't too hot; but for older people and patients waiting outside the hospital it is. And another problem is that students wait 40 minutes and often see dangerous people at bus stops.

How many students at Hardy or MacArthur are old, or waiting outside a hospital?

[Anonymous]

It is true my mom was waiting around 45 min this morning because I was stuck in traffic outside the Sibley hospital.around 8.30 am.terrible service .

[Anonymous]

Lots of snowflakes on DCUM, per the usual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My teen daughter is heat-intolerant and faints and/or get an asthma attack when it's too hot. We're waiting for more medical testing, but in the meantime, every summer is spent in the air conditioning.

When she's an adult, I hope she moves somewhere much cooler!

Then drive her. I cannnot do the heat but I plan for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of snowflakes on DCUM, per the usual.

In this heat? Sorry, Olaf

[Anonymous]

It's incredible how some responses are rude and without compassion. Unfortunately, not everyone can pick up their children because they have to work. And with very irresponsible and negligent principals

[Anonymous]

Many students are exposed to danger by waiting for too long. If you are not going to say something productive, then don't say anything at all.

[Anonymous]

The original Better Bus plan would have axed the D2 that runs from GP to Dupont in favor of a new route that connected Chevy Chase to Foggy Bottom via MacArthur HS.

ANC3B fought the loss of the D2 bitterly and Frumin essentially copy pasted their arguments into his letter to WMATA. Of course, one could split hairs by claiming that ANC3B were not arguing against the new route but rather in preservation of the D2, but those making those arguments knew full well that WMATA doesn’t have the resources to be running both routes all day in a part of the city where few people ride the bus.

So what WMATA did based on Frumin’s reaction - and again, he just simply passed on ANC3B’s complaints - was that the D2 was preserved by WMATA as the “D96” and the route between Chevy Chase and Foggy Bottom - the “C85” - became a “rush hour only” service that runs northward from 7 to 8am in the morning and southward from 2:30 to 5pm in the evening.

Anyone who has been paying attention to this process can draw a straight line from ANC3B’s advocacy - and Frumin’s willingness to parrot their talking points - to the lack of a bus connecting Glover Park and neighborhoods north to MacArthur HS.