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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot?  What's the issue with that? 
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Where do you live?  You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home?  You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day?  Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled. [/quote]

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot.  And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot.  Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.[/quote]

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Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods.  One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster. [/quote]

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future. 
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Where exactly is the site?  At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road?  Across from the pool?[/quote]

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening. [/quote]

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.[/quote]

Not usable at all.  School parking lots can not be used to park buses.  That fact was established years ago.  This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor. [/quote]

one, it won't be a school anymore at that point. two, I wouldn't count on "facts" that were established years ago. three, if it can save a buck, you better believe it will be considered.[/quote]

It's not a school now - this is the not-yet-existent Wootton Elementary School site that they're talking about for the bus depot. [/quote]

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