Peggy emailed us that she’s been on “pins and needles” waiting for the Seattle Public Schools transportation map to be released for Ballard schools. It has now been released for the 2011-2012 school year.
From the SPS website:
In the new transportation plan, transportation eligibility for attendance area elementary and K-8 students will be based on transportation zones.
Students within the transportation zone and outside the walk zone for a school will be eligible for District-provided transportation.
Students outside their immediate transportation zone, but within their extended intermediary boundary, can walk to an attendance area school for bus pick-up if they live within a safe walk zone (up to one mile). Otherwise, they walk up to a 1/2 mile to a regular neighborhood stop. This is a temporary option to extend transportation for two (2) years (2011-12 & 2012-13).
* Transportation Zones will include the entire attendance area of a school
* Transportation Zones will extend to areas within a 1.25 mile radius from the school and within the middle school service area
* Walk zones to schools will still apply.
Here are the maps for Ballard-area schools – all are .pdf.
Adams Elementary
Loyal Heights Elementary
North Beach Elementary
Viewlands Elementary
West Woodland Elementary
Whittier Elementary
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In typical SPS nonsense, I find it funny that my HOUSE remains inside the bus zone, yet my kid’s actual stop is not…
Oh, it will change trust me.
What about Salmon Bay? All city?
This seems like a scam. The Walk-zone for each school is slightly larger then the size of the ‘school-zone’. So basically, no one can ride the bus unless you are attending a school outside your normal zone.
Sort of a non-issue for us, as we are planning on walking and cycling to school every day. I personally think they should just kill the school bus all together because they are expensive to maintain, gas, staff, and insure. There are plenty of Private Schools that don’t waste the money on buses just for that reason. You just rent for field trips and other special occasions.
No need for busing now we have our neighborhood schools back. For all her faults, this is one thing Goodloe-Johnson got right.
Good for you that you have the free time/money to do this. Working parents don’t have the luxury, and need the buses.