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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I"m so  sick of all the concern trolling about access to transit.  Nobody picks up their kids from extended day on transit.  It just doesn't happen.
https://www.apsva.us/aps-go/2016-aps-go-surveys/[/quote]

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and peak walking is 13% in the mornings for Key.  11%in afternoon.
86% take bus or family vehicle in morning; 87% in afternoon.

0.5% transit both morning and afternoon.  So I guess there is one family who actually uses public transit to and from Key.
I haven't figured out how 0.7% bike to Key in the morning and 1% bike home afterward in the afternoon.....[/quote]

To me, the biggest flaw in that survey, and one that was pointed out, is that it doesn't differentiate between those who drive at 8:40am, or those who are doing extended day.  If kids near the school in theory are walkable, or further from the school could bus, but don't because instead their parents have to work and drop them at school before 8am, as a non-statistician to me there's different weighting in terms of what info you can glean from that.

I know this is anecdote and not data, but in our family and others we know, the mode of transport is totally reliant on the parents' work schedules.  WAH day for mom or dad, the kid is walked or bussed respectively.  Headed to the office? Kid is at ED.

Maybe it doesn't matter, but I feel like it might have been useful for them to also understand when that child was arriving or departing school.[/quote]

I agree with you in terms of understanding why people drive kids in a single vehicle car and think that extended day has a huge influence on that.  However- it doesn't change that nobody uses public transit to get their kids to and from school- whether they are going to extended day or not.  Which makes all the crocodile tears from the keep Key on key folks about the families that go to extended day and live car free and rely on metro to get their kids after extended day all the more ridiculous.   [/quote]

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