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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Children within 1.5 miles will be expected to walk, if it is safe. At last week's site selection advisory committee meeting, Montgomery County Public Schools staff said that if a school were to be built on the site of Rock Creek Hills Park, then students would not be expected to cross either Connecticut Ave or Beach Drive to get to it, because those roads are not safe for middle school students to cross. 
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This makes sense but I'm not sure it's true... I see a large group of younger kids walking east from CCES every day - I don't follow them the whole way, but they appear to cross Conn Ave to Section 3/5/Martins Addition neighborhoods of CC MD.

If there are restrictions on walkers crossing Connecticut or Beach, then that would mean almost no kids would be eligible to walk to a MS if the NCC park is chosen - there are very few houses within walking distance that would not have to cross Connecticut or walk past onramps to the Beltway. Another strike against NCC as a realistic alternative. At least in the RCH neighborhood, there would be a reasonable number of students who live in the immediate vicinity.[/quote]

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