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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You missed the memo, we’re not allowed to talk about our dead friend here. It makes other people uncomfortable because it means either having to acknowledge that there are very real safety concerns around Nottingam that the county steadfastly refuses to address, or having to say “who cares about your dead friend, she’s fungible.” But that’s okay, ATS kids are fungible too, right? If one of them dies in front of the school when a truck (or school bus, there will be 13 coming through twice a day to get their shot also) clips their minivan, that’s just good fortune for the next family on the waiting list.

Sorry, I know how uncomfortable it makes you all that I miss my friend and that I wouldn’t have to miss her if the county didn’t insist on maintaining such a dangerous stretch of road there.[/quote]

I am sorry that you  miss your friend and appalled that Arlington didn't do something about that road. That is unacceptable.
The ATS bus loop is off a main road and huge. While I want it to be a neighborhood school of proximity to my house, I can see that it would work for option. That said, I really don't think it's south enough and so I super extra don't think Nottingham is right...[/quote]

Thank you, I really appreciate that. A lot of us really are worried about the safety there, not just for ourselves but for anyone who goes to school there. We don't want what happened to Jenn to happen to anyone else, and it feels like such a slap for the county to tell us over and over again that no additional safety measures will be approved, not matter how badly they are needed. That stretch of Little Falls between Williamsburg and Kensington is so dangerous, people speed through there like crazy during morning arrival (and the rest of the day), they don't stop at crosswalks, I can't even count the number of times I've seen crossing guards almost hit over the years by cars that just don't stop (it just happened again yesterday at John Marshall/Little Falls). If we're walking through there when the crossing guards aren't out, we take a more circuitous route to Nottingham via safer crossings because some of the most direct crossings are just too dangerous, despite the crosswalks and signs.

The county actually did a traffic study of that part of Little Falls a few years back at the neighborhood's request. The answer we got was that based on traffic patterns during morning arrival at Nottingham, we more than qualified for traffic calming based on traffic volume, speeding, failure to stop at crosswalks and other moving violations, etc., but that they weren't going to do anything because we didn't also meet the threshold throughout enough of the rest of the day as well. [i]The county openly admitted that morning arrival at Nottingham is too dangerous but that they wouldn't do anything to fix it. [/i] And now if you put an extra 20 buses (the buses needed to take kids to an option program at Nottingham and take current Nottingham-zone walkers elsewhere) and 100+ cars through there are the same time, it's going to be even worse. We are worried someone else will die, and it is troubling that APS doesn't appear to be concerned about that.[/quote]

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