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There is a neighborhood at our high school that is passionately fighting against rezoning citing "longer bus ride" as one of their reasons.  The schools are about 1.5 miles apart, and to get to the new high school they would go against rush hour traffic, while the current school is with rush hour traffic, so the bus ride is really just a few minutes difference.  Busses to that high school already travel through that neighborhood due to AAP and the quarter of that neighborhood that already attends the other high school.

I get putting forth your best argument, but some of the transportation arguments are very eye roll worthy and really grasping for straws, even if they are very valid in other scenarios in other parts of the county.[/quote]

There were 4 main points that FCPS put out regarding how and why to change boundaries.  They included proximity and transportation.  Because of that, people are using bus ride arguments to make their case.  If that is what FCPS claims to be focused on, it makes sense that parents will use that as their argument to stay or go. It might not be their strongest argument, but by using a FCPS priority to make their point they are hoping to garner some support. [/quote]

A 1.5 mile/5 minute variance in commute is not a valid transportation argument.[/quote]

Any transportation argument, absent full analysis of the actual savings, is just dumb speculation.  Posters love using distance as a proxy, but it’s a weak weak correlation to cost savings.  That’s probably why transportation is and will remain an afterthought.[/quote]

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