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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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]

New poster, also from New York.

NYC poster, thank you for pointing this out. I love how the solution to the carless family is to just buy a car. Everyone here pretends they're so green yet sits in clogged traffic to get to school. And if you want the "free" PK3, you're stuck going to a terrible part of town, sitting in traffic for hours. There is laughably bad city planning in DC.  [/quote]

Sorry, but I've live in NYC and DC and it's clear to me that neither of you has been out of the city long enough to realize that volume and capacity are everything. DC doesn't compare to NY in either of those. There are not enough school children to support school buses here and not enough room in the schools budget. In NYC there's more - more kids, more taxpayers, more money, more everything. And I'm sorry, but until there is a near 100% walkability score in all DC neighborhoods, you're going to have families who need their cars - to get groceries, go to the pharmacy, go to the doctor, and yes, get to school. DC has had a population boom in the last 6 years and many of those schools are still way under capacity.

I was the one who said you'd have to make IB school attendance obligatory for all those not in charters or private, because otherwise there aren't enough bus-needy kids to make it feasible. My own IB is .6 miles away. Walkable, sure, but something with wheels is more practical. If you want the city to be more green, push for more bike paths (separate from auto traffic, as they do in Europe)  and strict enforcement of safety regulation for cycling. That's more doable than buses, and better for everyone. 
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