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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]I just don't get why the buses all seem to stop so often these days?

It is not at all rare for a bus picking up kids in a residential neighborhood to average about 4-5 stops every 1/4 of a mile & for these stops to not even be separated by any major crossroads -- or, oftentimes, any crossroads at all. Since they are not needed to prevent kids from having to cross major roads, why on earth are these extremely frequent bus stops necessary? Can kids really no longer be expected to walk more than 100 feet max twice a day?

And before anyone accuses me of being insensitive, I am obviously not referring to kids with special needs who have legitimate reasons for being unable to walk more than 100 feet.[/quote][/b]

Because you don't want your kid walking 1/8 of a mile or 1/4 of a mile in the dark in snow on icy roads with no curbs during winter.[/quote]

[b]This might be a valid reason where you live  (though only really for the first run routes)  but I live somewhere where, other than kids in out-of-district special needs programs -- who are nowhere near so plentiful that buses are stopping every hundred feet or so to pick them up -- ,only kids in high school qualify for bussing. This eliminates the need for staggered start times &, combined with the fact that none of the bus routes are very long, means that even the earliest pick-up times are much later than they are many other places. As a result,no kids are getting picked up along these routes while it is still dark out, regardless of the time of year. Yet the bus stops are still extremely close together. [/quote][/b]

How wonderful for you wherever you live  Back to DCUM.  The routes are set by the counties in the fall according to number of students and stops and per the darker months of the winter.  In No. Virginia, it is dark when my child leaves for the bus stop.  Black dark. no street lights.  no side walks.  And we often have snow and ice.  I escort her to the stop just in case a car doesn't see her or overshoots and plows into her in a snowbank.  That's why there are stops every 1/4 of a mile as OP stated.[/quote]

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