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Anonymous wrote:For those of us whose kids are new to Deal, where are some good places a few blocks away to drop off/pick up, in order to stay away from the parking lot?

The best advice is to stay outside of the triangle formed by Nebraska, Cumberland, and Connecticut during drop off and pick up. You will sit and sit and sit once you enter that Bermuda triangle.

Take a look at a map and consider that Janney, Wilson, Deal, and Murch, with ~3500 people, are all within less than a 1 mile radius of each other, and now all the drop offs are happening simultaneously with people converging on the circle of schools from every direction and then back out again, all in the span of ~30 minutes. So, if you are headed to Deal, go somewhere northwest of the school and have the student use the path from Fessenden St. or south of Cumberland and walk a few blocks. If you try east of Deal, you get into the triangle and absolute mess around Murch and St. Paul's, if you try south of Deal you hit the Wilson traffic, particularly pedestrian traffic, if you try southwest, you get into the Janney and Metro pedestrian foot traffic and Wisconsin Ave. commuters. Keep in mind that soon, GDS to the west, Sidwell, to the south and Sheridan to the southeast will also be having drop off using the same main roads and cut throughs. Give yourselves a lot of time and be patient. Most kids walk to the preschools and elementary schools in the neighborhood, so please be mindful and careful.

A lot more people are driving to Deal and Wilson who previously would have been using public transportation. It has been a mess out there this week. Similar congestion is happening across town too.

Yours is actually the second best advice. The ACTUAL best advice from a traffic perspective would be to return about 1000 kids from Deal and Wilson to their neighborhood schools.

I went to Deal and Wilson in the 90s when they were more than 50% OOB kids. I don't know anyone who was driven to school on a regular basis. Everyone took the bus or metro or walked. Once we hit Wilson and kids would drive some kids would drive and park nearby so they could do sports practices but again, there were not tons of kids getting dropped off. Parents were not allowed in the Deal driveway at all. This issue has zero to do with OOB kids and everything to do with people driving thier kids short distances that could be covered by so many other transportation options.

Were you taking a crowded metro or bus in the middle of a pandemic? Didn't think so.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of us whose kids are new to Deal, where are some good places a few blocks away to drop off/pick up, in order to stay away from the parking lot?

The best advice is to stay outside of the triangle formed by Nebraska, Cumberland, and Connecticut during drop off and pick up. You will sit and sit and sit once you enter that Bermuda triangle.

Take a look at a map and consider that Janney, Wilson, Deal, and Murch, with ~3500 people, are all within less than a 1 mile radius of each other, and now all the drop offs are happening simultaneously with people converging on the circle of schools from every direction and then back out again, all in the span of ~30 minutes. So, if you are headed to Deal, go somewhere northwest of the school and have the student use the path from Fessenden St. or south of Cumberland and walk a few blocks. If you try east of Deal, you get into the triangle and absolute mess around Murch and St. Paul's, if you try south of Deal you hit the Wilson traffic, particularly pedestrian traffic, if you try southwest, you get into the Janney and Metro pedestrian foot traffic and Wisconsin Ave. commuters. Keep in mind that soon, GDS to the west, Sidwell, to the south and Sheridan to the southeast will also be having drop off using the same main roads and cut throughs. Give yourselves a lot of time and be patient. Most kids walk to the preschools and elementary schools in the neighborhood, so please be mindful and careful.

A lot more people are driving to Deal and Wilson who previously would have been using public transportation. It has been a mess out there this week. Similar congestion is happening across town too.

Yours is actually the second best advice. The ACTUAL best advice from a traffic perspective would be to return about 1000 kids from Deal and Wilson to their neighborhood schools.

I went to Deal and Wilson in the 90s when they were more than 50% OOB kids. I don't know anyone who was driven to school on a regular basis. Everyone took the bus or metro or walked. Once we hit Wilson and kids would drive some kids would drive and park nearby so they could do sports practices but again, there were not tons of kids getting dropped off. Parents were not allowed in the Deal driveway at all. This issue has zero to do with OOB kids and everything to do with people driving thier kids short distances that could be covered by so many other transportation options.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of us whose kids are new to Deal, where are some good places a few blocks away to drop off/pick up, in order to stay away from the parking lot?

The best advice is to stay outside of the triangle formed by Nebraska, Cumberland, and Connecticut during drop off and pick up. You will sit and sit and sit once you enter that Bermuda triangle.

Take a look at a map and consider that Janney, Wilson, Deal, and Murch, with ~3500 people, are all within less than a 1 mile radius of each other, and now all the drop offs are happening simultaneously with people converging on the circle of schools from every direction and then back out again, all in the span of ~30 minutes. So, if you are headed to Deal, go somewhere northwest of the school and have the student use the path from Fessenden St. or south of Cumberland and walk a few blocks. If you try east of Deal, you get into the triangle and absolute mess around Murch and St. Paul's, if you try south of Deal you hit the Wilson traffic, particularly pedestrian traffic, if you try southwest, you get into the Janney and Metro pedestrian foot traffic and Wisconsin Ave. commuters. Keep in mind that soon, GDS to the west, Sidwell, to the south and Sheridan to the southeast will also be having drop off using the same main roads and cut throughs. Give yourselves a lot of time and be patient. Most kids walk to the preschools and elementary schools in the neighborhood, so please be mindful and careful.

A lot more people are driving to Deal and Wilson who previously would have been using public transportation. It has been a mess out there this week. Similar congestion is happening across town too.

Yours is actually the second best advice. The ACTUAL best advice from a traffic perspective would be to return about 1000 kids from Deal and Wilson to their neighborhood schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of us whose kids are new to Deal, where are some good places a few blocks away to drop off/pick up, in order to stay away from the parking lot?

The best advice is to stay outside of the triangle formed by Nebraska, Cumberland, and Connecticut during drop off and pick up. You will sit and sit and sit once you enter that Bermuda triangle.

Take a look at a map and consider that Janney, Wilson, Deal, and Murch, with ~3500 people, are all within less than a 1 mile radius of each other, and now all the drop offs are happening simultaneously with people converging on the circle of schools from every direction and then back out again, all in the span of ~30 minutes. So, if you are headed to Deal, go somewhere northwest of the school and have the student use the path from Fessenden St. or south of Cumberland and walk a few blocks. If you try east of Deal, you get into the triangle and absolute mess around Murch and St. Paul's, if you try south of Deal you hit the Wilson traffic, particularly pedestrian traffic, if you try southwest, you get into the Janney and Metro pedestrian foot traffic and Wisconsin Ave. commuters. Keep in mind that soon, GDS to the west, Sidwell, to the south and Sheridan to the southeast will also be having drop off using the same main roads and cut throughs. Give yourselves a lot of time and be patient. Most kids walk to the preschools and elementary schools in the neighborhood, so please be mindful and careful.

A lot more people are driving to Deal and Wilson who previously would have been using public transportation. It has been a mess out there this week. Similar congestion is happening across town too.

Yours is actually the second best advice. The ACTUAL best advice from a traffic perspective would be to return about 1000 kids from Deal and Wilson to their neighborhood schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of us whose kids are new to Deal, where are some good places a few blocks away to drop off/pick up, in order to stay away from the parking lot?

The best advice is to stay outside of the triangle formed by Nebraska, Cumberland, and Connecticut during drop off and pick up. You will sit and sit and sit once you enter that Bermuda triangle.

Take a look at a map and consider that Janney, Wilson, Deal, and Murch, with ~3500 people, are all within less than a 1 mile radius of each other, and now all the drop offs are happening simultaneously with people converging on the circle of schools from every direction and then back out again, all in the span of ~30 minutes. So, if you are headed to Deal, go somewhere northwest of the school and have the student use the path from Fessenden St. or south of Cumberland and walk a few blocks. If you try east of Deal, you get into the triangle and absolute mess around Murch and St. Paul's, if you try south of Deal you hit the Wilson traffic, particularly pedestrian traffic, if you try southwest, you get into the Janney and Metro pedestrian foot traffic and Wisconsin Ave. commuters. Keep in mind that soon, GDS to the west, Sidwell, to the south and Sheridan to the southeast will also be having drop off using the same main roads and cut throughs. Give yourselves a lot of time and be patient. Most kids walk to the preschools and elementary schools in the neighborhood, so please be mindful and careful.

A lot more people are driving to Deal and Wilson who previously would have been using public transportation. It has been a mess out there this week. Similar congestion is happening across town too.

Yours is actually the second best advice. The ACTUAL best advice from a traffic perspective would be to return about 1000 kids from Deal and Wilson to their neighborhood schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of us whose kids are new to Deal, where are some good places a few blocks away to drop off/pick up, in order to stay away from the parking lot?

The best advice is to stay outside of the triangle formed by Nebraska, Cumberland, and Connecticut during drop off and pick up. You will sit and sit and sit once you enter that Bermuda triangle.

Take a look at a map and consider that Janney, Wilson, Deal, and Murch, with ~3500 people, are all within less than a 1 mile radius of each other, and now all the drop offs are happening simultaneously with people converging on the circle of schools from every direction and then back out again, all in the span of ~30 minutes. So, if you are headed to Deal, go somewhere northwest of the school and have the student use the path from Fessenden St. or south of Cumberland and walk a few blocks. If you try east of Deal, you get into the triangle and absolute mess around Murch and St. Paul's, if you try south of Deal you hit the Wilson traffic, particularly pedestrian traffic, if you try southwest, you get into the Janney and Metro pedestrian foot traffic and Wisconsin Ave. commuters. Keep in mind that soon, GDS to the west, Sidwell, to the south and Sheridan to the southeast will also be having drop off using the same main roads and cut throughs. Give yourselves a lot of time and be patient. Most kids walk to the preschools and elementary schools in the neighborhood, so please be mindful and careful.

A lot more people are driving to Deal and Wilson who previously would have been using public transportation. It has been a mess out there this week. Similar congestion is happening across town too.

Yours is actually the second best advice. The ACTUAL best advice from a traffic perspective would be to return about 1000 kids from Deal and Wilson to their neighborhood schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of us whose kids are new to Deal, where are some good places a few blocks away to drop off/pick up, in order to stay away from the parking lot?

The best advice is to stay outside of the triangle formed by Nebraska, Cumberland, and Connecticut during drop off and pick up. You will sit and sit and sit once you enter that Bermuda triangle.

Take a look at a map and consider that Janney, Wilson, Deal, and Murch, with ~3500 people, are all within less than a 1 mile radius of each other, and now all the drop offs are happening simultaneously with people converging on the circle of schools from every direction and then back out again, all in the span of ~30 minutes. So, if you are headed to Deal, go somewhere northwest of the school and have the student use the path from Fessenden St. or south of Cumberland and walk a few blocks. If you try east of Deal, you get into the triangle and absolute mess around Murch and St. Paul's, if you try south of Deal you hit the Wilson traffic, particularly pedestrian traffic, if you try southwest, you get into the Janney and Metro pedestrian foot traffic and Wisconsin Ave. commuters. Keep in mind that soon, GDS to the west, Sidwell, to the south and Sheridan to the southeast will also be having drop off using the same main roads and cut throughs. Give yourselves a lot of time and be patient. Most kids walk to the preschools and elementary schools in the neighborhood, so please be mindful and careful.

A lot more people are driving to Deal and Wilson who previously would have been using public transportation. It has been a mess out there this week. Similar congestion is happening across town too.

Yours is actually the second best advice. The ACTUAL best advice from a traffic perspective would be to return about 1000 kids from Deal and Wilson to their neighborhood schools.

Anonymous wrote:I know every family who is driving up the drive is a special case - but please just follow the line.

If you can't do it for all the other children around - please do it for the teachers. Following the process gets everyone collectively out quicker. Including the teachers! I was chatting with one who said it is taking them over 30 minutes just to get out of the parking lot.

If you can't do something for the other families - please do it for the teachers!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of us whose kids are new to Deal, where are some good places a few blocks away to drop off/pick up, in order to stay away from the parking lot?

The best advice is to stay outside of the triangle formed by Nebraska, Cumberland, and Connecticut during drop off and pick up. You will sit and sit and sit once you enter that Bermuda triangle.

Take a look at a map and consider that Janney, Wilson, Deal, and Murch, with ~3500 people, are all within less than a 1 mile radius of each other, and now all the drop offs are happening simultaneously with people converging on the circle of schools from every direction and then back out again, all in the span of ~30 minutes. So, if you are headed to Deal, go somewhere northwest of the school and have the student use the path from Fessenden St. or south of Cumberland and walk a few blocks. If you try east of Deal, you get into the triangle and absolute mess around Murch and St. Paul's, if you try south of Deal you hit the Wilson traffic, particularly pedestrian traffic, if you try southwest, you get into the Janney and Metro pedestrian foot traffic and Wisconsin Ave. commuters. Keep in mind that soon, GDS to the west, Sidwell, to the south and Sheridan to the southeast will also be having drop off using the same main roads and cut throughs. Give yourselves a lot of time and be patient. Most kids walk to the preschools and elementary schools in the neighborhood, so please be mindful and careful.

A lot more people are driving to Deal and Wilson who previously would have been using public transportation. It has been a mess out there this week. Similar congestion is happening across town too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of us whose kids are new to Deal, where are some good places a few blocks away to drop off/pick up, in order to stay away from the parking lot?

The best advice is to stay outside of the triangle formed by Nebraska, Cumberland, and Connecticut during drop off and pick up. You will sit and sit and sit once you enter that Bermuda triangle.

Take a look at a map and consider that Janney, Wilson, Deal, and Murch, with ~3500 people, are all within less than a 1 mile radius of each other, and now all the drop offs are happening simultaneously with people converging on the circle of schools from every direction and then back out again, all in the span of ~30 minutes. So, if you are headed to Deal, go somewhere northwest of the school and have the student use the path from Fessenden St. or south of Cumberland and walk a few blocks. If you try east of Deal, you get into the triangle and absolute mess around Murch and St. Paul's, if you try south of Deal you hit the Wilson traffic, particularly pedestrian traffic, if you try southwest, you get into the Janney and Metro pedestrian foot traffic and Wisconsin Ave. commuters. Keep in mind that soon, GDS to the west, Sidwell, to the south and Sheridan to the southeast will also be having drop off using the same main roads and cut throughs. Give yourselves a lot of time and be patient. Most kids walk to the preschools and elementary schools in the neighborhood, so please be mindful and careful.

A lot more people are driving to Deal and Wilson who previously would have been using public transportation. It has been a mess out there this week. Similar congestion is happening across town too.

Anonymous wrote:For those of us whose kids are new to Deal, where are some good places a few blocks away to drop off/pick up, in order to stay away from the parking lot?

Anonymous wrote:For those of us whose kids are new to Deal, where are some good places a few blocks away to drop off/pick up, in order to stay away from the parking lot?

Anonymous wrote:It would help if Wilson and Murch and Janney also didn't let out at the same exact time....