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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I value ease of commute a ton and have a personal preference for ITS too, but I would NOT let a year of bad construction-related traffic be the deciding factor on the best elementary school for a child.[/quote]

It is not the construction. It certainly adds to the complexity, but having two large charter schools right next to each other next to a major commuting route, having hundreds of pedestrians walking to two schools and metro with 6 crossing guards is the mess. So basically the pedestrians and crossing guards make it impossible for commuters to drive, turn or even move. It's really, really bad. [/quote]

It is really bad there. I am a np, but the route between those two schools is also one I thought of as "my own short cut to brookland," and the way I intended to commute to ssma.

The op is right--the crossing guard was directing traffic, but I don't see that he had a choice --the traffic on Riggs and going into rock Creek drive  (or whatever it's called) was catastrophic.

Dc has to come up with better traffic plans for its schools and it's students. It is a real mess out there. Busing would help, I think. The micro traffic jams around each charter school are pretty amazing.[/quote]

In my observation, 80% of the cars in the traffic are not people dropping off for school, it is other commuters (mostly commuters coming from MD going downtown etc) that treat it as a cut through to Brookland, Cap Hill, etc as well. The pure number of pedestrians, the short lights, the crossing guards is causing the gridlock. IMO, bussing is not going to help. The busses can't turn onto the street because the pedestrians crossing (I'm all for pedestrians) going to metro etc. Then people get stuck in the box when lights turn red and it creates a chain reaction. [/quote]

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