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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Reed site has no bus lane, up to now it’s accommodated a few buses in the street parking lane.  In order to accommodate 13 buses worth of option students, they’d have to raze the athletic fields, which are heavily used for baseball and soccer.  Is it better for kids across the county to have field space be even more limited than it is now?[/quote]

Too bad, so sad.[/quote]

I don’t see why they need to raze the fields. ASFD is mostly bused and it’s bus lane holds 3 buses and it’s fine. 
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ASFS? They use both lanes of the circle for buses and seem to get 7-8 buses in there at once. They also have a block of no-parking street space for waiting buses to queue. And it’s still a CF.

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Yeah and there is a huge parking lot next Reed which would hold 8 buses and they can have no street parking along the fields during school drop off pickup. [/quote]

The Reed school design includes a bus lane that can accommodate up to 7 buses.  They could make the shoulder leading up to it no parking to accommodate waiting buses, but 18th is very narrow (and could only fit a couple of buses anyway) so any bus that isn’t right on the curb will impede traffic in the travel lane, but any bus that is right on the curb will struggle to make the right turn into the lot.[/quote]

So what. 18th isn’t an arterial route. There a myriad of other routes for drivers who happen to drive during bus times. [/quote]

For a neighborhood road it actually gets pretty heavy traffic because of its proximity to Washington Blvd.  And the county takes serious issue when APS blocks roadways on a regular basis due to poor transit planning.  Only the county can designate those lanes no-parking, so APS would effectively
have to get the county’s sign off on the transportation plan.  County won’t sign off if they don’t think the plan is adequate to keep roadways clear.[/quote]

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