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Very location dependent, and MCPS doesn't make it easy to see bus routes, which is what you really need to know. Perhaps on individual school's websites? 
The bus takes a certain route around the neighborhood, so if you're out of luck, despite being reasonably close to school, you can spend 45 minutes on the bus.

My son wakes up at 6:30 and his bus comes at 7:20. Despite our relative distance to his MS, the bus goes right there after picking him up and right to our house after leaving the school in the afternoon - we are lucky!
The PTA sometimes pays for an "activity bus" on certain days of the week so that children can go home by bus when their after-school activities are over. Otherwise, you have to pick them up by car.

[b]Be careful with walking and biking. Depending on where you've lived before, your kids might not be used to scampering across busy lanes and watching for cars turning on red. Especially at DUSK, which is the most dangerous moment of the day for bikers and pedestrians!
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Regarding this warning about traffic -- is that an issue in particular neighborhoods, or everywhere? Is Takoma Park for example easily walkable/bikable for kids, if we live, say 2 miles from the school?[/quote]

Takoma Park is great for walking/biking, even if the area right around TPMS is a little hilly.  There's also a lot of housing stock right around the middle school.  If you want an easy walk, I'd look at Takoma Park + Sligo Park Hills/East Silver Spring.  The middle school is right in between Silver Spring and Takoma Park, so you would be conveniently located either way.  Here's a place that basically backs up to the middle school field.  http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/37284220_zpid/3-_beds/500000-750000_price/1742-2613_mp/globalrelevanceex_sort/38.997091,-76.99826,38.979378,-77.027571_rect/14_zm/[/quote]

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