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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NYC PP here.

I agree. All kids should be able to walk to a good in-bound school. But all cannot.

[quote]It's called WMATA[/quote]

If your WMATA provided bus connections that were timed to connect with other busses, and had routes that ran within a block or two of every school, this would be great. But one thing I found when researching school options was a corner of NE that has about five charter schools in it (drawing kids from all over the city), and two bus lines, both of which have limited schedules and don't even come that close to the schools. Compound this with heavily trafficked streets and no crossing guards... because this area also has all of that.

New York has a fairly complicated formula that determines its bus routes, and who is eligible to use them. If you have to travel out of your borough, you either do a private bus or take the subway. But if you're more than a mile from a school and less than five miles from a school, a bus route has to accommodate you. If New York can work this out, I really don't see why DC cannot. Or cannot provide some kind of transit route that runs close to all of its schools.

Yes rude, ignorant, never left the dc area, PP

However, as I said, apparently parking lots are a bigger priority. [/quote]

So NYC has bus system to transport all kids that want to go to different boroughs to hundreds of different schools? [/quote][/quote]

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