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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And I am sympathetic to parents who would rather their kids walked to ASFS than took the bus to Taylor, but the complaints ........that their kids are taking bus rides of 45-60 minutes to get home are making me sneer. [/quote]

Why?  That seems like an awful long time on the bus.  Of course, that's probably the result of the decreased busses.  I'm not in that team, but we felt the impact with our bus being 10 minutes earlier in the morning because we are the first (closest to school) stop and the bus has a longer route now.  Since APS doesn't like busses, you'd think they'd be working to make the boundaries more compact.[/quote]

I live on a ASFS/TAylor split street.  One side goes to Taylor, the other ASFS.

The ASFS and the Taylor bus both depart at 8:19 in the morning for the 9am start time and they both return at 4pm in the afternoon.  Parents from both schools are at the same bus stop--kids board different buses.  In fact, given that Taylor is slightly farther away I always wondered why they make it home before our kids a lot of the days.

I can't speak to different locations in the zone, but in ours there is no difference in bus time.  I actually find it crazy that it is 40min from departure time to home for a school only 0.70 miles away.  I guess it is the loading on/off and the couple of stops.[/quote]

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