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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]Are buses ready?

Bus depot?

Bus drivers navigating on these conditions?

13k bus stops?

Sidewalks leading to those bus stops? (County was going to resume enforcement of unshoveled sidewalks Monday)[/quote]

They've been working on bus depots since last week. The pictures looked pretty good at the Clarksburg depot, and those were taken 5 days ago.

Bus stops and sidewalks don't need to be fully clear. Kids can walk on snow. But the county did a lot of work on sidewalks over the weekend.[/quote]

And how are the roads where buses pass through? Looked like blocks of freezing rain. How will bus drivers turn around those snow banks? Will guardS be mitigating the intersections to assist bus drivers?! And the students who walk to and from school? And to the bus stops? Not everyone lives on a cul de sac. [/quote]

[b]Most streets are fine.[/b] There may be some exceptional cases where buses have to modify their routes. People will manage.[/quote]

Source? [/quote]

The county itself and a week of driving around.[/quote]

So you saw ALL the roads where two lanes turn into one? It's bad enough that buses go through streets that are basically one lane both directions when there is no snow. And  you want them to go through areas now where the snow is piled so they can't get through safely?[/quote]

I've seen roads that have a lane clear. Just like I've seen roads that normally only have one lane available after cars park on both sides. People can manage. That's not a safety issue. It's a convenience issue.[/quote]

Some of those roads don't have sidewalks and kids will be walking in those one lane cleared areas with the cars.  That's not a safey issue.  How will the busses get through?[/quote]

They should change status to close by tomorrow morning. Allow child care to operate if that's what folks complain about.[/quote]

If they close tomorrow they might as well close the whole week... none of the remaining problems are going to be fixed within another day or two.[/quote]

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