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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have two cars ourselves but know many families at our school who don’t have a car or just have one car. These families walk, bike, and bus around town.

Not sure why that’s so hard for the nasty posters to believe. There are tons of families who live in the high-density areas along the R-B corridor. And more buildings going up every year. Get your head out of your ass and you will notice these things. [/quote]
Please, give me a break!  Here we go again.  Sorry, this is not NYC.  You are right that there are many families with children that live along R-B corridor but wrong that they don't have cars - however, this is irrelevant to APS planning.  THey have no requirement to make some special accomodations for people who do not own cars.  They have a plan in place for these people - they are called school busses!  I get that your Larlo is too precious to ride one but that's the plan for your child, you just don't like it.  Not APS's problem.  You're preference for walking doesn't require APS to bend over backwards to develop some special plan to accommodate you.[/quote]
Nobody is asking for special accomodation.  I think the post that started this tangent asked for :
 -- reliable buses (is anyone actually against this?)
 -- the ability to sign up for extended day at a closer school

I can see the argument against extended day, but is anyone really arguing against reliable buses?  Or are we just arguing for the sake of arguing?
Lots of people don't have cars, lots of people do.  Just because you cannot imagine living without a car doesn't mean other people don't live that way.  There's a lot of beating up on a few posters who say they have kids and don't own a car.  I'm not really sure what's motivating that, its not really productive, and isn't really relevant to this thread.    
I don't think we want to intentionally zone people who currently walk to a school where they have to drive, especially in areas that have reduced parking and the county is encouraging people to use public transportation.  That seems reasonable.  You can argue that we don't have the infrastructure to support people being carless, or that its not something we should consider, but it doesn't help Arlington as a whole to argue that everyone with kids owns a car and must drive their kid to and from school.  [/quote]

I just love the sanctimonious folks in Market Commons who cannot be inconvenienced because they reportedly walk everywhere.  What about the car-free families who live in the same planning unit as ASFS that were attacked for even applying to go to ASFS?[/quote]

I think the beauty of this SB initiative, tackling the entire county at once, is that the screaming over hyper-local concerns will be diluted by all the other screaming over hyper-local concerns. Doing just a few schools at a time, or attempting a swap of 2 schools, makes it harder to ignore the t shirts and whiners.[/quote]

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