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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp who helped with walk zoned for another school.  The issue isn’t that three people can’t walk because lots of residential streets are like that.  The issue is that you have a narrow sidewalk on a busy road.  If there weren’t cars going very fast on that street, not having a wide side walk wouldn’t matter.  [b]But it’s a busy street and right off the highway.  [/b]The fact that the only way parents can walk to that school from that side is crossing into a back entrance that isn’t handicap accessible is an issue.  If it’s a steep hill without a continuous sidewalk, that’s an issue.  If crossing a street is potentially unsafe, people are more likely to get in their cars.  That’s not what aps wants.
Again my kids are at another school.  I have no dog in this fight.  I know you guys want to expand the asfs walk zone, but please don’t shout down reasonable safety concerns.  [b]If a kid gets hit or the traffic gets horrendous, it will be on you.[/b][/quote]

NP with no dog in this fight since my kids are in college but live in the neighborhood.  The only possibly legitimate argument you might have is that the one block of sidewalk students would use on Kirkwood is too narrow and that is something the County could easily address.  Otherwise:

1) You are acting like Kirkwood is a virtual race track and right off of 66 (unless you are talking about Spout Run, which is hardly a highway considering the speed limit is 35 MPH and strictly enforced), neither of which is accurate.  The intersection of Henderson and George Mason, as well as the traffic on Henderson,are significantly busier than Kirkwood and students are able to cross it just fine with a crossing guard to walk to Barrett.  And to get from 66 to Kirkwood requires exiting to Lee Highway and either stopping at two traffic lights first or stopping at one traffic light and then slowing down to cut through a parking lot.

2) Walking up the back stairs is not the only way parents can walk to ASFS from Lyon Village.

3) The steep hill has a continuous sidewalk. [b]And half of this OMG steep hill can be avoided by entering the school property at the playground rather than the front entrance. [/b]

4)  The school has existed for 30+ years and has numerous ADA compliant entrances and exits.  The law does not require each and every possible way to get to the school be handicap accessible.

5) If a kid gets hit by a car, that will not be "on" the people who advocate for an expanded walk zone.  That would be the responsibility of either the driver, the kid, or both, and the School Board, which employs professionals to study these matters before making such decisions.

6) Traffic at the school is already horrendous, mostly for two reasons.  Since school doesn't start until 8:55, many parents drive to ASFS on their way to work because they don't have the 10-15 minutes it might take to walk their kids to school or have no choice but to drive there to put their kid in extended day before school starts.  I also know plenty of families around Courthouse who could put their kids on a school bus but choose not to for whatever reason and instead drive.

Like a pp said, there may be reasons for not swapping ASFS and Key but access from Lyon Village is not one of them.

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Enter at playground?? Please explain.

Lots of people do cut through from 66 to the Clarendon/VA Square area on Kirkwood. It is a busy, fast-moving road. But that can be fixed with a crossing guard or light.

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