Kiss and Ride on rainy days

[Anonymous]

The K&R is a 5 minute drive away, With the routing they use, the bus ride is 45 minutes. We drop them off and we all get 35 minutes extra sleep. Until they figure out how to route busses we'll bring them to school. Rain, shine, or snow (if they'll open)

[Anonymous]

The most dangerous thing at our kiss and ride lines are the walkers with parents who cut across traffic instead of walking down to the crosswalk with the crossing guard.

This happens at both schools, including the one on a busy main road.

They dart out between cars and right through traffic. On rainy days when they are trying to stay dry they usually don't look. I can't tell you how many times I have seen walkers escorted by their parents almost get hit because they can't be bothered to walk down to the proper crossing area.

If you want to complain about a safety issue OP, complain about that.

[Anonymous]

Would you rather them be sent to school using UBBER?

[Anonymous]

We drive.

Like PP we are a 15 minute walk and a 5 minute drive, including kiss and ride, from the school.

For the child who busses, the bus picks him up one hour before school starts. His stop is mid way on the route. When we drive, it takes 8 minutes to get there and 5-10 minutes to get through kiss and ride, depending on weather.

Op needs to get a life.

[Anonymous]

What is ubber?

[Anonymous]

OK, it's so funny that you think I'm making this shit up. I am a 10 minute round trip walk to our school. There is no way that 10 minutes tops is what people are sitting in our kiss and ride for, as I saw a car directly in front of my house when I left this morning and the same car had moved exactly 2 houses up by the time I was walking home. So, in 10 minutes, they had moved up a couple hundred feet. And this is truly not unusual on a rainy day.

As for complaining about the walkers, that's fine, but I'm not one of them. I walk straight down a sidewalk and use 2 crosswalks - one on the street next to the school and one in the actual school parking lot. I have nearly been run over multiple times by people not even bothering to look or stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. Even on the 95% of days when the teacher at the crosswalk is clearly holding his/her stop sign trying to help me and my child walk across the road, people still don't pay a damn bit of attention. Luckily, I am familiar with what assholes people can be from my years working downtown and I don't just TRUST that people are going to stop when they are supposed to.

It is like a game of frogger even in clearly marked crosswalks at our school/in our neighborhood.

It is especially aggravating knowing that our school administration is well aware of the problem, has done everything in their power to explain the situation to people and attempt to improve it, yet people STILL continue to do whatever the hell they feel like. Your convenience is not more important than the safety of the children.

We have been begging the police to come out and get involved in our neighborhood, as there have been children hit.

[Anonymous]

I'll do what I think is best, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK, it's so funny that you think I'm making this shit up. I am a 10 minute round trip walk to our school. There is no way that 10 minutes tops is what people are sitting in our kiss and ride for, as I saw a car directly in front of my house when I left this morning and the same car had moved exactly 2 houses up by the time I was walking home. So, in 10 minutes, they had moved up a couple hundred feet. And this is truly not unusual on a rainy day.

As for complaining about the walkers, that's fine, but I'm not one of them. I walk straight down a sidewalk and use 2 crosswalks - one on the street next to the school and one in the actual school parking lot. I have nearly been run over multiple times by people not even bothering to look or stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. Even on the 95% of days when the teacher at the crosswalk is clearly holding his/her stop sign trying to help me and my child walk across the road, people still don't pay a damn bit of attention. Luckily, I am familiar with what assholes people can be from my years working downtown and I don't just TRUST that people are going to stop when they are supposed to.

It is like a game of frogger even in clearly marked crosswalks at our school/in our neighborhood.

It is especially aggravating knowing that our school administration is well aware of the problem, has done everything in their power to explain the situation to people and attempt to improve it, yet people STILL continue to do whatever the hell they feel like. Your convenience is not more important than the safety of the children.

We have been begging the police to come out and get involved in our neighborhood, as there have been children hit.

Where the hell do you live OP and why don't you have a crossing guard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll do what I think is best, OP.

LOL.

I am so happy that OP has explained to everyone how they must run their mornings.

Since her way is clearly the best and only way, I will be changing our family's routine first thing tomorrow morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is ubber?

https://www.uber.com/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I am so happy that OP has explained to everyone how they must run their mornings.

Since her way is clearly the best and only way, I will be changing our family's routine first thing tomorrow morning.

You are a kind and considerate person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am so happy that OP has explained to everyone how they must run their mornings.

Since her way is clearly the best and only way, I will be changing our family's routine first thing tomorrow morning.

You are a kind and considerate person.

+1

You go on about your day, against better judgement AND the wishes of the school that has sent out multiple emails on the topic, practically begging you to NOT do this. Because dammit, you can do whatever you please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Where the hell do you live OP and why don't you have a crossing guard?

OK, we have one police crossing guard on the main, VERY busy road in front of our school. However, we have multiple other problem points that are not on school grounds, including two crosswalks on a side street with houses that back up to school property. People use that intersection to make u-turns without watching for the people waiting to cross. And the school employees cover the one drive in and out of the park and ride. The crosswalk on school property that I have said I have nearly been hit in on multiple occasions is on school property and people sadly do not look for people on the sidewalks waiting to cross and drive right past the teachers holding the stop sign.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I am so happy that OP has explained to everyone how they must run their mornings.

Since her way is clearly the best and only way, I will be changing our family's routine first thing tomorrow morning.

You are a kind and considerate person.

+1

You go on about your day, against better judgement AND the wishes of the school that has sent out multiple emails on the topic, practically begging you to NOT do this. Because dammit, you can do whatever you please.

Who knew I have been doing it wrong all these years. I had no idea that the schools were offering a kiss and ride that they do not want parents to use. How helpful of OP to let us know that we are NOT supposed to use the kiss and ride.

[Anonymous]

yes, they have kiss and ride - but they expect that those of you who are on bus routes will use them on rainy days so as not to make an already terrible park and ride situation worse.