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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Late to this thread and haven’t had a chance to read all 58 pages, but I wanted to add my thoughts. After all the budget cuts over the past two years, if walkers are not made a priority, it would be a major contradiction. Prioritizing walkers would help reduce transportation costs, ease traffic congestion—especially on narrow and back roads—and address the ongoing bus driver shortage. This should absolutely be the top priority.[/quote]

They need to make a better assessment on walker zone before they prioritize walkers. Right now the options include many unreasonable areas which are actually not walkable. All it does it to take away bus from these neighborhoods and parents have to drive individually which cause more traffic congestion. [/quote]

And they don’t include zones that are under 2 miles in the walk zone in a lot of cases too. Granted two miles is a far walk but IMO if it’s a short drive that’s helpful to reducing traffic. As an example a good amount of Wayside is under two miles, but for whatever reason Falls Rd is akin to a river or something as the sides over don’t get included like high schools can’t cross a two lane road with a stop light.

There’s several areas I’m not sure why aren’t “walkable” to Whitman either. Same for lots of high schools.[/quote]

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