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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they were going to redo boundaries, they should have started from scratch.  Example - given travel distance, ALL of Sangster should go to WSHS, instead of the small attendance island being shifted to Braddock.  
Sangster kids are traveling up to half hour to get to Braddock, whereas WSHS is much closer.[/quote]

No, it isn't a half hour from that Sangster neighborhood to Lake Braddock.

Lake Braddock busses already pick up lots of students from that Sangster neighborhood, 
 
And the Lake Braddock bus does not drive past West Springfield on its way to school from the Sangster neighborhood.

It will take the direct route, which goes from either Old Keene Mill to Shiplett to Burke Lake, or Lee Chapel to Burke Lake, coming from the opposite direction, not from West Springfield.  The Sangster neighborhood will never need to pass WSHS on its way to Lake Braddock.  That would be the most convoluted route possible.

Sangster to West Springfield High School is 4.2 miles, and is a heavier trafficked route, down the main commuting thoroughfare of Keene Mill Rd.

Sangster to Lake Braddock is 5.5 miles, along a less trafficked path.

The difference is negligible.

When you attempt to use the bus ride and distance as your argument against getting rezoned from WSHS to Lake Braddock, you are not helping your cause. You might actually be hurting your cause.

You are ignoring the fact that FCPS already has busses travelling through that Sangster neighborhood,  picking up lots of kids from your neighborhood and taking them to Lake Braddock.  FCPS has years of bus data from that Sangster neighborhood to Lake Braddock, so FCPS knows exactly how long both the Lake Braddock and WSHS busses take to get from the Sangster neighborhood to both LBSS and WSHS.  They also know how much money the district will save each year by cutting the bus routes from that neighborhood in half, only sending one bus to LBSS instead of 2 busses to LB and WS.

The Sangster neighborhood has one or two reasonable arguments against getting rezoned.

The bus and commute time arguments are not one of them.

FCPS has too much transportation data from that neighborhood to both WSHS and Lake Braddock, years worth, for your arguments to have any credibility.[/quote]

West Springfield and Irving buses also already go through that neighborhood on Cottontail.   As for proximity, Irving and WS are physically closer.  It is a fact that transportation times will increase.  Just saying ..[/quote]

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