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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nottingham’s 22 bus number is total fake news. They are using the 13 figure from ATS, but APS already knows that ATS is not busing efficiently and they are planning to drastically reduce those numbers next year. ATS has the lowest number of students per bus in the county. That will be changing to bring them in line with neighborhood school bus capacity. Will suck to be on a bus to ATS, but your time is the price to pay fir fewer buses. 
Anyway, Nottingham is using crazy over the top numbers to scare the Boomers into helping them whine about buses. Of course, they also argue the neighborhood is dangerous for walkers. It’s hard for Nottingham to keep its story straight. [/quote]

You are so full of it. Choice school buses carry fewer students per bus because of the length of the travel time they need from the areas they pick to get to school. ATS starts at 8:25, which means buses aren't supposed to arrive any later than 8:15. With traffic, that means a bus picking kids up from around Abingdon needs to finish its pick-ups by 8:00 to start heading up to the school. They can only start running those routes so early due to use for middle/high school, which means they simply don't have enough time to fill the buses. If you're coming from most parts of South Arlington, the trip to Nottingham is going to run you a good ten minutes longer than the trip to ATS, which means they'll be able to fill buses even less than they do now, unless they're going to make the bus rides from South Arlington so long that families don't even try.

If your real goal is to make ATS rich and white, though, moving it to Nottingham makes a lot of sense. So maybe that's what you're really after, getting the poors out of ATS?[/quote]

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