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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not a Great Falls resident, but I do think there were remarks early on by SB members that might have made one think they were on the chopping block.

And, to the poster a few pages back about the developers and Langley. That is absolutely true--we had a neighbor that moved to one of those developments on the Herndon side of RT 7 because it was zoned for Langley.  That was their reason for moving there.  Honestly, I was a little insulted--and I didn't even have a kid in school yet.[/quote]

It wasn't just random remarks by SB members.  The SB adopted revisions to a policy on boundary changes that suggested transportation times were going to be a big focus in the boundary review, and then Reid's consultants ignored the longest commutes in the county.  [/quote]

Transportation costs are what matters.

The inconvenient truth is that the amount of buses that need to be on the road are very inelastic and primarily based on the number of students in the county. Sure they might be able to take one or two buses off the road if they prioritized commute logistics above all else, but that’s pretty far down on the list of priorities, all things considered. Also, they can really only do that analysis with a fully baked map, so it’ll always have to be an afterthought to the boundary review. I think most SB members recognize that at this point, hence focusing on the other categories.[/quote]

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