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Look, I think the NIMBYs in foxhall are silly; we do need more schools and the new high school in that location immediately relieves Jackson-Reed by diverting rich families from Jackson-Reed and opening up room there. But Hardy rec is one of the least accessible sites in the city. Why not build another school in Volta Park, Jelleff, Guy Mason, Newark, Forest Hills, or Turtle Park. They Key/Mann axis is the least overcrowded part of Ward 3. A new school at guy mason or jelleff wouldn't annoy the stoddert parents. This site is some suburban no-mans land. There is a reason GDS got rid of their white elephant over there.[/quote]

All of this. The Foxhall location is just bad bad bad. And no, I am not a Foxhall NIMBY. People simply won't be able to get there reasonable during Rush Hour.[/quote]

Let's have some fun with Google Maps, shall we? Try the following steps:

1. Pick a random address in Ward 7 or 8 (I tried Randle Highlands because it seemed more or less central to neighborhoods east of the river)

2. Set "Arrive By" to 8:30am on a Monday (or any day of the school week)

3. Calculate travel times by car to get to the Hardy Rec Center and the the different potential Ward 3 sites the poster you responded to mentioned - these are: Volta Park, Jelleff, Guy Mason, Newark, Forest Hills, and Turtle Park

4. Do a ranking of the various rec centers by travel times to prove conclusively just how long it takes to get to this "least accessible site" versus the other most better situated sites . . .

Oh, but wait! What's that? Holy hell! Of those sites, the Hardy Rec Center - future site of Foxhall ES - is actually the quickest to get to of all of those listed from Randall Heights (bar Volta, with which it is tied for travel times at 18-35 mins).

Don't ever ever let the actual facts get in the way of your opinions, am I right? By all means, keep making stuff up. The NIMBYs can't get enough of it.[/quote]

By car.

now try by metro[/quote]

And if I gave you that, you’d be asking me about times by jet pack or something. Bus services to Foxhall / Palisades was cut due to the pandemic. What it is now won’t have much bearing on what it will be in a couple of years once the schools are open. The point is that Foxhall is not the remote enclave that the local NIMBYs want to think of it as and those who want schools built elsewhere want to project it as.[/quote]

So you are basically saying that all of the students will need to be driven to the new schools, except for the precious few who live enough to be able to walk to it. How do you square that with the 500 set-aside OOB seats?[/quote]

No. Not at all. That is a fairly extreme misreading. What the poster is saying is that Foxhall's transit connectivity now is bad because services will be cut due to COVID. But that there is scope for bus services to be added that will make it much easier / quicker to get to the area via transit. Adding a bus between the Rosslyn metro and Foxhall should be feasible for instance. [/quote]

LOL - lots of the OOB student will be coming from VA!  And the drive across the Key Bridge and thru Georgetown is so speedy!

You can keep plastering the lipstick on this pig but it is still a pig.

The transit options to Foxhall are terrible.

Sure you can increase the frequency of the D6 but it is still a 26 minute ride from Dupont Circle during the AM & PM rush hour and almost none of the OOB students will be coming from Dupont but there is no other logical place to tie in with other public transportation in DC.  So it is 7 minutes on the Metro from Dupont to Tenleytown or we do a tie in with another form of transit and have kids with 60 minute commutes at best from other parts of DC.

There is also no direct way to walk/bike/take transit from Glover Park and driving is going to force parents onto Reservoir which is already a nightmare during the week.  I don't think  it is an exaggeration that for most families in Glover Park this school will be harder to get to.[/quote]

If you're really LOLing, you're laughing at yourself.

Laughing that you don't even know that Foxhall is the *opposite* direction to Georgetown when coming off the Key Bridge.

Laughing that you don't seem to understand that the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines travel west to Rosslyn as well as east.

Laughing that you're willfully ignoring the now well-established fact that no one is planning to send students from Glover Park to Foxhall ES and that Stoddert is receiving a $20.5 million addition to accommodate existing students (but also, beside the point that it is, that you think there is no way to walk or bike between Glover Park and Foxhall).

This post is reminiscent of many a NIMBY tactic to sow total confusion. It's very difficult in any case you think anyone actually believes what you wrote above.[/quote]

What are you going on and on about?  So you think it makes sense for DC students to take the Metro to VA to get a bus to double back through one of the worst traffic bottle necks in the city all to justify this poorly located school that is in this fantasy world going to serve Key students and a bunch of OOB students with this nightmarish commute via Rosslyn?

LOL indeed.[/quote]

You give the impression of being one of those people who joins a conversation, never bothers to listen hard enough to figure out what it is being talked about, and then makes a ridiculous statement that makes you look like a total nincompoop. [/quote]

More LOL - I've attended most of the ANC meetings, know the area well, know the enrollment numbers at all of the impacted schools and also am in a car light family that gets around all over Ward 3 including on public transit, including in the corridor where this school is going.

You are on here flailing around coming up with all sorts of poorly thought out reasons why this school makes sense and sounding dumber and dumber with each defense of your ideas - why don't you propose a transporter next?[/quote]

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