OMG WHYYYYY would you do this

Anonymous wrote:also, how is your kid in the car? will s/he cry? need a snack? get carsick? have one or two less hours of playtime each day? fall asleep and then not be able to sleep at bedtime? A carpool doesn't solve any of that.

Good point. That is way too long to be in a car after trying to regulate yourself at school all day.

also, how is your kid in the car? will s/he cry? need a snack? get carsick? have one or two less hours of playtime each day? fall asleep and then not be able to sleep at bedtime? A carpool doesn't solve any of that.

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Anonymous wrote:Glover Park to Brookland to Dupont Circle? No way. No school is worth that drive for me. Stick with Stoddert.

I drive from downtown to Columbia Heights back to downtown for my charter school, but I have to agree. No freaking way would I make this drive.

If you DO decide to take this on, I hope you are in K, so when you drop out you have a backup plan of your IB school.

Also, do NOT take Rhode Island ave.....horrible.

We live in Brookland and gave up Stoddert soccer b/c of the drive and that's just Saturday mornings. I cannot imagine driving this every morning...

Anonymous wrote:Your problem is going to be NE to Dupont in the am and the entire evening loop could be very bad.

+1000 a freak'n nightmare. If you like Stokes, I would consider moving in the long run but for now, you need to find a car pool.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glover Park to Brookland to Dupont Circle? No way. No school is worth that drive for me. Stick with Stoddert.

I drive from downtown to Columbia Heights back to downtown for my charter school, but I have to agree. No freaking way would I make this drive.

If you DO decide to take this on, I hope you are in K, so when you drop out you have a backup plan of your IB school.

Also, do NOT take Rhode Island ave.....horrible.

How's RI Ave going the other way (from downtown to NE) in the morning?

I did that for my childs daycare for a year. It was not terrible, but now that they are doing construction, I would not want to do everyday. Nope, that's not really an option.

Anonymous wrote:I'm bad with street names, but know how to get around. If you're coming from Glover Park, enter into Rock Creek park by the Exxon gas Station and take one of those streets that leads you to Washington Hospital Center. Columbia Road I think it is? Then you will make a left on Michigan Ave.

That's Porter Street to Irving, which is seriously problematic as it goes through Columbia Heights.

Better might be Reno Rd to Tilden to Piney Branch. Come out at Arkansas and make a right on Taylor and take that straight into NE. From Stokes, I'd take Michigan to Columbia, then south on 11th or 13th, west on Florida to 16th, then south on New Hampshire to DuPont.

I've driven from Petworth to DuPont and that NH/Florida route is relatively pain-free in both directions. But the school/home route is going to be the toughest part. East-west routes are tough at rush hour, even going throught the park. Any intersection that crosses 14th is going to be backed up.

It's traffic everywhere in DC.

Rhode island is a bit better going the other way, but no way I'd want to do it every day. I live near Brookland and commute to Dupont, but by metro. The handful of times I've had to drive it was horrendous. If it's very important for you to be at work on time, I'd allot an hour after the drop off. A lot of construction in Brookland is causing local traffic slowdowns as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Glover Park to Brookland to Dupont Circle? No way. No school is worth that drive for me. Stick with Stoddert.

I drive from downtown to Columbia Heights back to downtown for my charter school, but I have to agree. No freaking way would I make this drive.

If you DO decide to take this on, I hope you are in K, so when you drop out you have a backup plan of your IB school.

Also, do NOT take Rhode Island ave.....horrible.

How's RI Ave going the other way (from downtown to NE) in the morning?

Anonymous wrote:Glover Park to Brookland to Dupont Circle? No way. No school is worth that drive for me. Stick with Stoddert.

I drive from downtown to Columbia Heights back to downtown for my charter school, but I have to agree. No freaking way would I make this drive.

If you DO decide to take this on, I hope you are in K, so when you drop out you have a backup plan of your IB school.

Also, do NOT take Rhode Island ave.....horrible.

I do a similar drive as you have from Brookland to Dupont in the morning. I plan on it taking an hour when sceduling any morning meetings, though I am usually at my desk in 45 minutes. Pick-up is similar though I live in NE so don't have the long drive once I leave the school.

It works ok for us, but our evenings are structured like clockwork because our kids needed a fairly early bedtime once they aged out of taking naps at school.

Anonymous wrote:I'm bad with street names, but know how to get around. If you're coming from Glover Park, enter into Rock Creek park by the Exxon gas Station and take one of those streets that leads you to Washington Hospital Center. Columbia Road I think it is? Then you will make a left on Michigan Ave.

Maybe I'm mixing it up but my understanding is that Rock Creek parkway is all one-way southbound in am and northbound in the pm. So going north-ish from Glover Park to Washington Hospital Center on the Parkway is not an option. In fact, that leg is going to be the most problematic one.

OP, you should try the drive a few days in the morning and evening before summer break to get a feel for your commute times.

Glover Park to Brookland to Dupont Circle? No way. No school is worth that drive for me. Stick with Stoddert.

Google says that's 30 minutes WITHOUT traffic and WITHOUT having to get out of your car to take your kid in to the building. I'm going to say that's going to be well over an hour.