What am amazing state we live in, where you get views like this on a random suburban as you drive the kids to the school!
Submitted by AuntiLou t3_y341s2 in Washington
Why are you driving kids to school? Isn't that what school busses are for?
Less traffic for everyone that way (you too).
One of the most-common complaints every city and county gets: "There's too much congestion at my kids' school! Do something about it!"
Many school districts have a seat on a bus for every child. Some require children within a certain distance (like one mile) walk to school, but the rest have a seat on a bus.
And what happens? There's a giant traffic jam of SUVs and minivans outside every school, because the parents think their child deserves better than riding the bus. Or they can't bear the idea their child walk a mile a day.
I'm all for kids taking busses and walking but there's also a bus driver shortage.
If you increase pay... The shortage disappears.
What a revolutionary and radical idea
“Capitalism hates this one weird trick!”
no, that’s not gonna work... Let’s cut taxes on the rich instead.
They work a couple hours in the morning and a couple in the afternoon. Its essentially part time. Who wants that?
So... Increase pay? Or stagger school schedules so they drive all day. These problems have solutions.
Adjusting school schedules is not the fix. Now you have parents that have to adjust all of THEIR jobs for a handful of bus drivers. Get your city transit to run a few routes. That's what they did for awhile in Richland. Or it wouldn't kill the little darlings to walk.
No school 'requires' a student to walk to school. Perhaps parents feel like it's a safer option to accompany their children to school.
Kids within a mile of the school here in King County by default don’t get a seat on the school bus. Might be able to get one in certain circumstances but the default is no seat. Source: am parent with kid who had no seat on bus
It’s the same in Pierce. I would have to walk with or drive my daughter next year since we live within a mile of the elementary school. They only run a bus for certain neighborhoods due to distance.
Same in Tacoma
Sure. And those are, I guarantee you, the same parents complaining about how traffic is so bad at their school when they go to drop off & pick up their kids.
I hear the phone calls, I read the emails.
It takes less than 5 minutes for me to drive my kid to school, but the bus ride is over an hour. A stretch of the drive has a 50 MPH section, and no sidewalk, and barely any room on the white line between a guard rail. The worst part is watching other buses going back to the depot, while still waiting for my kid…
But if it takes 5 minutes... Then you can't complain about traffic?
Check mate!
Still traffic in the school parking lot, but I’m with what you are saying.
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