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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I live in this neighborhood (between Fort Totten Dr. & North Capitol St) and I can attest that not all of this traffic is due to Bridges and DCB - it has always been pretty bad - but this year is WAY WORSE than I have ever seen in my 10 years of living there.

Fort Totten Drive has long been a cut-through for commuting drivers to get from Riggs Rd to North Capitol and also it is a major route for both Yu Ying and Capital City charter schools (south and north of the area, respectively). Throw in SS, and we now have effectively 5 charter schools in some way using this teeny, tiny little road for their daily commutes in addition to the regular commuter traffic we already had. It's a nightmare.

When Mamie D Lee was there, all of the students were bused (and it was a much smaller student population) so the traffic situation was much better. Not sure if busing would be feasible with the new school populations, but something needs to be tried!

I know they are supposed to be doing some sort of traffic study on the area, but not sure when that is happening or what will come of it. [/quote]

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