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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its going to very hard to drum up sympathy for this anti-River push, and it frankly seems like nothing more than NIMBY attitudes coming from people who have chosen to live within blocks of some of the busiest commercial thoroughfares in NW.  I, too, live near one of these busy commercial areas, and while my children riding their bikes around worries me, it is the price of doing business for having a beautiful, leafy neighborhood in a major city. There are plenty of examples of large historic homes that are transformed into commercial/nonprofit/educational spaces. If they turned an old Ambassadors residence in Spring Valley into a small elementary school, I would be fine with that. [b]If they built a new school at Hardy Park that could alleviate crowding at our schools but would add more cars to an already busy thoroughfare[/b]...I would be fine with that too! Consider it like NCRC in Cleveland Park. Its just not a big deal, and I think these anti-River organizers (are going to have a hard time painting this little school as some sort of nefarious actor that's going to turn 42nd St into the Indy500.[/quote]

I would argue that a new school at Hardy Park leads to a net reduction in traffic. The school is being built to address increased demand in the immediate neighborhood. The kids are going to go to school somewhere if not there, and that other school is going to be further away from where they live. People traveling shorter distances means less traffic.

The traffic is increasing because the population is increasing. A new school isn't a cause, it's an effect. [/quote]

You cry out NIMBY because some people care about the community and not wanting to get run over when walking to school? You've missed the mark on that one. Doing a lot of finger pointing here which sounds like you are very much vested in this. When I walk my daughters to school their safety concerns me. When my son walks to Wilson, that concerns me maybe even more (teenagers!).

This sounds like a big deal to me by the way you a defending all the issues? It is in no way a "little school". Your family either goes there or you have not read their BZA. Maybe both? Going to school there is great!  Not knowing what you are talking about because you didn't read the information is not. The amount of children and staff they want to bring without adequate space is worrisome.

If the feeder pattern gets changed and the families who would WALK to their school gets changed - how are they going to get to the Hardy location??????? They are going to have to drive which will cause even more issues, not a reduction. What about the families that lived in the area to be close to their public school and do not have a car? Families that bike to school? That Hardy area is not metro accessible which is why the River School is "trying to move" from their original location is it not? Biking with small children for the 3 or so miles during rush hour? Thank you google maps and the 1 hr walk in the morning (for a grown adult).

"People traveling shorter distances means less traffic". What in the world?[/quote]

PP here. I live in AU Park. I am a Janney parent. I feel compelled to post because -- as a neighbor, not some River plant -- your signs feel manipulative, and they annoy me. I am the constituency you are trying to scare into opposing the River School project by insisting that if we let it go through, our children are automatic roadkill, as if River parents somehow also used their malevolent wealth and connections to obtain some sort of black market driver's license, despite being serial child smushers. And I am telling you, I simply don't care. I suspect others don't care.

If it make you feel any better, I used to live in the Palisades, and I can happily report to the community with first hand experience that while the queuing of River cars on MacArthur was mildly annoying, I learned to use my blinker and shift lanes around the G-Wagons. 5-7 seconds added to my morning routine, no dead children.

Now FEEDER PATTERNS, I care about![/quote]

Friend, I don't think you're the kind of parent that group is trying to talk to. As a former Janney parent, now Deal and Wilson parent, it sounds like you're EXACTLY the kind of parent that carries on and on about what they "care" about, and not interested in the broader community. I'm sure you were part of the group that drove the poor Janney Principal nuts with all your "caring" and now that school will be without someone who knows what's up as the kids go back (hopefully) full time in the Fall. Guess what? Others in the community might care, like myself, or might not even know about it.  Did you ever think about that?
 
You sense of humor is sickening too. Shame on you. 
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