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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of GGW's stated goals is to get people out of single-occupancy vehicles in DC. Someone tell me how a citywide lottery could possibly advance that goal? DC isn't about to purchase the fleet of school buses that would be needed, leaving parents in such a scenario to rely upon WMATA -- have fun with that -- or (more likely) their own cars.

It's one of a billion reasons a citywide lottery is a non-starter. Wish GGW would admit that.[/quote]

75% of students are already doing this. And most are t driving if you see the data on who is using the Kids Ride Free cards.

My 2 kids have been using Metro - 2 lines - to commute to school for the last 6 years. They have been late 10 times in those years. We were late 5 times (2 years) when we drove.

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You are talking about a bunch of people who choose to make the commute because the school and the particular commute make sense to them, not people doing it because they are required to and even if the commute is highly impractical.[/quote]

True. And the DC government has to make decisions that benefit the greatest number of people. Retaining a failing neighborhood school system --[b] at the high school level [/b] -- where students are most capable of travelling on their own using mass transit, is increasingly untenable.
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