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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here -- we are at our IB elementary and get free metrobus travel to and from school. I'm trying to work out if we are going to lose that, or if this refers to some other program.

I'm trying to work out (a) what the program that's being cut is and (b) whether it affects subsidized wmata travel:
http://www.wmata.com/fares/purchase/passes.cfm#students[/quote]

How far are you from your IB school that you need to take a bus to get there? We are OOB at a school one neighborhood over and we walk every morning. It's a little less than a mile.[/quote]

We are right on the edge of the boundary. It's exactly a mile. That's a 40 minute round trip for whichever parent walks the kids to school -- you have to come all the way back for metro. It's not that it's too far to walk. It's that there isn't enough time in the morning to do it. And in the evening, the kids are wiped out.

Also, in winter, the streets are not particularly well lit.[/quote]

Thanks for the explanation. I was just curious, as the system of neighborhood schools is supposed to make it easier to get kids to school without cars or buses or trains. I know that's not the case in all neighborhoods. Our neighborhood is walkable and well lit and school is on my way to and from work, so I don't have to backtrack or worry about visibility, so the lack of bus would not bother me much.[/quote]

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