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Post by WeNeed3 on Mar 16, 2009 9:13:31 GMT -5
I happened to be out and about this morning at around 6:30. I noticed the bus picking up the kids. There were no more than 10 kids in the bus. When I finished with my errand, I noticed another bus coming (NV Gold?) and that had about 5 kids in it.
So I came home and I looked at the bus routes. Here is what I found.
For example, in Ashbury, the NV main bus picks up the kids at Grommon and Othello at 6:43 am. Then the NV Gold bus stops at the same stop at 6:47 am.
Isn't it possible to actually pick all the kids up at 6:43? You drop those off at the main campus and then drop the other kids off at the Gold campus a few minutes later? To me, this would save on the number of needed bus routes.
I am dumbfounded that we do this. Can anyone explain WHY we do this? Maybe it is more of an issue at WV or maybe in other subdivisions, the buses are packed. But I hope in the future when we are only dealing with one gold campus, someone examines that one.
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Post by momto4 on Mar 16, 2009 9:40:26 GMT -5
Since the existence of the Gold campuses the HS routes have been duplicated. However, the buses by my house tend to be much closer to capacity. I agree under-utilized routes should be looked at in any case.
In the case of WV, it seems non-trivial to drop off at one building and then the other due to the busy intersection in between. But we only have a few months left of dual campuses for WV anyway.
We have had the opposite problem with MS and ES buses and have needed to request route changes due to the buses being too full.
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Post by wvhsparent on Mar 16, 2009 10:11:59 GMT -5
Where are on the route? Beginning, Middle or End? By the sound of the pick-up times I would say you are at the beginning, so the busses probably fill up as they go.
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Post by WeNeed3 on Mar 16, 2009 10:49:27 GMT -5
Where are on the route? Beginning, Middle or End? By the sound of the pick-up times I would say you are at the beginning, so the busses probably fill up as they go. The route I quoted was not my route. I just picked a route for an example where I knew the routes were the same streets. In my subdivison, the gold bus may stop a block or two off from the main bus so it was harder to compare. I looked on the bus schedule for our subdivision and it was the last stop. It's weird though as some buses only stop 6 times. Maybe that's why they aren't full. Other buses stop 15 or more times. I think they could work on balancing that out at least.
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Post by gatormom on Mar 16, 2009 11:03:41 GMT -5
The concentration of students at the bus stops really dictates how many stops there are. In my neighborhood, we have large numbers of students at different stops, thus fewer stops and the buses are full.
Shortly after school starts, the bus company gets those early numbers in and shifts schedules a bit. We have gotten updated bus schedules in our area on occasion.
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Post by momto4 on Mar 16, 2009 11:05:34 GMT -5
Where are on the route? Beginning, Middle or End? By the sound of the pick-up times I would say you are at the beginning, so the busses probably fill up as they go. The route I quoted was not my route. I just picked a route for an example where I knew the routes were the same streets. In my subdivison, the gold bus may stop a block or two off from the main bus so it was harder to compare. I looked on the bus schedule for our subdivision and it was the last stop. It's weird though as some buses only stop 6 times. Maybe that's why they aren't full. Other buses stop 15 or more times. I think they could work on balancing that out at least. I've got to say - the number of stops in not all that relevant here. For example, in front of my house 10-15 ES kids get on the bus. There are probably other stops that have only 1 child.
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Post by WeNeed3 on Mar 16, 2009 11:26:26 GMT -5
I know we had this problem with the MS's. The district had assumed they would be at stop A due to where they lived but some kids went to stop B (and thus a different bus) because their friends were there. So one bus was less crowded than another. So it probably is tough to figure all that stuff out.
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