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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top 5 School Buildings With Fewest Walkers: 
ATS- 43 
Carlin Springs- 67 
Jamestown- 95 
ASFS- 118 
Tuckahoe- 135

McKinley still has 243 walkers, even with all the kids going to Reed. This decision isn't being made based on walkability. [/quote]

McKinley's current walkers are in the planning units south of 66 that will probably be moved to Ashlawn.  The 40% walkability in the Options are those walkable in planning units north of 66. [/quote]

Some of them will also be walkers to Ashlawn, so they won't even become bus riders.[/quote]

No, Wilson is classified as a street that only middle and high school students can cross. [/quote]

They can change that with a crossing guard.  I spoke with transportation about it at a previous meeting.[/quote]

People bring up crossing guard idea all the time in every proposal but I can't remember the last time it actually was implemented.[/quote]

My Ashlawn walker crosses Wilson with a crossing guard. We are the last block before the current McKinley boundary. What am I missing? 
Did the poster mean kids can’t cross 66? Because they definitely can at Ohio Street or Patrick Henry.

Did they mean kids can’t cross Washington? Swanson already has a crossing guard at Washington and PH - they could work Jr high and then Elementary. Or put another crossing guard at McKinley and Washington.[/quote]

Technically you can't cross Wilson at Elem level so you get a bus.  There is one tiny street on the other side of the park that goes to Ashlawn (Lexington).  No crossing guard there so they get a bus.  Yes for the less than 1/2 mile.  [/quote]

False. There is a crossing guard on Wilson near the pool for the dominion hills folks to cross. Once you get east of the park trail there is bus service, but for the Ashlawn folks north of wilson right by the school, they are walkers, and there is a crossing guard.  [/quote]

True there is a crossing guard there but there is not one at the Rose Garden light (where the horrible bike path detour was).  Kids that live across Wilson across from the park get a bus to Ashlawn.  All 10 of them.  Don't believe me?  Come to the Rose Garden and watch around 8:45 each morning.   Doesn't really make a difference but there are kids there being bused.  And this will be the bus that picks up the McK kids there that will be moved to Ashlawn.

I have no skin in this game-my youngest will be out of elem by the time they sort this whole mess out  but I do live right there.  [/quote]

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