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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The MacArthur Vice Principal and head of operations were at our elementary school last week during dropoff hours to discuss the new HS with parents.

I had only a brief discussion with them but came away impressed. The VP said that the renovations right now are just sprucing up to get the school ready for this year. He stated that DCPS will be spending $85M over the next two years to do a true gut renovation and will construct new buildings/expand existing footprints. He said it’s going to a big construction job.

I wonder if anyone heard anything else? Sounds like they will be touring all the feeder schools in the next week or two.[/quote]

Did they discuss the transportation issue? For me, that's the biggest issue.[/quote]

The bus system overhaul - which starts in June I believe - has a new bus running to and from Foggy Bottom metro. The original proposal had the same bus running up to Tenleytown, but the Glover Park NIMBYs killed that.[/quote]

what are you talking about? glover park fought for that route (literally read the minutes of the ANC meeting). they also wanted another route that was direct to dupont and more frequent.[/quote]

The original Better Bus plan would have axed the D2 that runs from GP to Dupont in favor of a new route that connected Chevy Chase to Foggy Bottom via MacArthur HS.

ANC3B fought the loss of the D2 bitterly and Frumin essentially copy pasted their arguments into his letter to WMATA. Of course, one could split hairs by claiming that ANC3B were not arguing against the new route but rather in preservation of the D2, but those making those arguments knew full well that WMATA doesn’t have the resources to be running both routes all day in a part of the city where few people ride the bus.

So what WMATA did based on Frumin’s reaction - and again, he just simply passed on ANC3B’s complaints - was that the D2 was preserved by WMATA as the “D96” and the route between Chevy Chase and Foggy Bottom - the “C85” - became a “rush hour only” service that runs northward from 7 to 8am in the morning and southward from 2:30 to 5pm in the evening.

Anyone who has been paying attention to this process can draw a straight line from ANC3B’s advocacy - and Frumin’s willingness to parrot their talking points - to the lack of a bus connecting Glover Park and neighborhoods north to MacArthur HS.[/quote]

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