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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read the memo linked in the original post.  The main reason for the swap is to minimize bus times for the poor kids in Rosslyn.[/quote]

I've read the memo, I get the bus time thing and actually support it. But this whole "halfway across the county" rhetoric is hyperbolic and getting old.[/quote]

Well, we appreciate your understanding, but Rosslyn to Taylor is 3.8 miles; our urban county is 6 miles across. People who aren’t riding a school bus (which has to stay parked until every kid is seated vs a city bus) just aren’t getting that Rosslyn to ASFS is already a compromise, and pushing even further to Taylor should not be on the table.

Curious how much the disturbance from having HB buses converge on Rosslyn will do to traffic. MS buses are earlier, but the increased traffic may not clear by 8 when school buses come through [/quote]

You’re using two different measurements to get to that comparison. Arlington is 6 miles wide as the crow flies; driving from one end to the other would be more Han six miles. Rosslyn is 3.8 miles to Taylor as driven on streets but as the crow flies, it’s maybe half that.[/quote]

compared driving from Rosslyn to Taylor to East Falls church. 3.8 vs 5.8. More than half that distance.m

As the crow flies? Are you comparing the edge of Rosslyn to the edge of Taylor zone, b/c reading the map, it’s about 2.5 miles as crow flies, probably more but I’m just measuring east to west.

Which is still pretty close to half the county.  Not ‘nearly half that’

Now if you are suggesting an air borne school transit, like a gondola, than maybe you have a point.

Otherwise it is ridiculously far to bus kids to their ‘neighborhood’ school in a county this size[/quote]

Using google maps even in traffic from River Place in Rosslyn or Prospect House behind the Marine Corps Memorial to Taylor elementary is typically 10-20 minutes and even in the worst traffic 24 minutes is the extreme.

[b][i][u]This entire discussion is moot because Long Branch will have plenty of room for the Rosslyn Whiners once Ft Myers goes to HB and the PUs below 50 go to Fleet. [/b][/i][/u][/quote]

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