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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Effective public transportation? The capital city/sela/ideal/hope matrix. Two buses, one goes to fort totten, the other to takoma metro. No provisions if the metro is out, no direct route to downtown, or any useful transfer points, both buses run (roughly and not really) every "twenty" minutes, which is more like every hour in practice, Both are packed with schoolkids busting their asses to get to and from their schools in the least efficient way possible.  [/quote]

Charters are optional. DC should not recreate trans to get kids to optional schools.

-charter crosstown parent [/quote]

Equal access is not equal if kids can't get to school. Show me how to take public transportation to cmi, again. Show me the number of kids who manage to do it. Show me how many of them dont make it when the weather turns. We don't have crossing guards at major intersection, we don't pay for bussing (although what is paid for special Ed kids would cover all children easily), and we don't have equal access, since a child's ability to attend the school of their choice, dcps or charter, is entirely determined by their parents' ability to get them there.[/quote]

No. The budget for special needs wouldn't cover personal buses from all around the city to be mapped to CMI, sorry. Have you seen the map of where kids come from for CMI? In my NW neighborhood, kids go to school to cap city, Haynes, Stokes, CMI, Latin, ITS, Bridges, DCB, YY, Cap Hill, Key, Hearst, Appletree, Bethune, Bruce Monroe, and some privates just to name a few. How many buses would there need to be just to service one neighborhood? Multiply that by what 100? What time would these buses need to leave the neighborhood? You think this could be done with $100m? [b]I don't even see how it would be logistically possible[/b].[/quote]

You're correct, PP.  Nonetheless, people will hate you for your use of logic, because some of them think it's more important to "think" with your [i]feeeeeelings[/i].[/quote]

"But they do it in NYC!" They really don't though. [/quote]

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