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Again, just look a lt a single boundary of any school and imagine where the kids live and then look at bus routes.

The only way it works is “special” buses and congratulations, you have now turned a RideOn bus into an expensive school bus. Also, LOL at getting kids waking and biking. The elementary school in the densest and most urban location in the county buses all the kids from the nearby apartments from within the walk zone. The schools that have the most walking are the schools located in purely residential neighborhoods.

You don’t have kids in MCPS do you? [/quote]

Kids take RideOn/Metrobus to and from school, right now. Even if you don't know any. Which means that it actually is possible for kids to take RideOn/Metrobus to and from school. My MCPS kid does not take public transportation to school because there's a school bus, but if there were no school bus, my kid would take public transportation to school.

Also, addresses that have bus service are, by definition, not in the walk zone - though they may be within the walk distance. When MCPS provides bus service to kids within the walk distance, that's called hazard busing, and safer streets are the solution.[/quote]

I think you are jut making things up. A lot of schools don't even have RideOn bus stops nearby. And yes, MCPS made a special exemption for one ES to provide buses to all families that live in apartments only blocks away. Good luck with your plan![/quote]

You're missing the point. Cancel bus routes that are redundant with existing public transportation routes and reallocate those buses to areas without public transportation, so that we can have one or two district wide start times instead of three. Add more crossing guards to enable wider walking area. (At our elementary school there are areas that are like a quarter of a mile from school but on the other side of a busy street so get bus service--it's ridiculous.)

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