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 Posted: Fri, Oct 8 2010, 1:49 pm EDT Post subject: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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CRANBURY — The Board of Education unanimously voted against moving two bus stops back to their original locations as per parents’ request at Tuesday night’s meeting.
The bus stops, which were moved to Old Trenton Road before the beginning of school, originally were on Parkview Road and Hardley Drive.
According to school officials, the bus stops were moved because the speed limit on Old Trenton Road was reduced from 50 mph to 35 mph.
Additionally, picking up and dropping off students on Old Trenton Road allows bus drivers to avoid going on cul-de-sacs on Parkview Road and Hardley Drive.
Business Administrator Joyce Picariello and Transportation Coordinator Kaye Davison decided on the new bus routes.
Residents of both roads have been present at the past two board meetings, held Sept. 7 and 21, and have expressed their concerns over the safety of their children at the stops on Old Trenton Road.
Some of the issues parents brought up at the past meetings were that people still drive fast on Old Trenton Road, there is construction on the road, and there was no communication from the administration on the decision to change the bus stops.
The residents asked the board — and presented a petition — to move the stops back.
Bus stops and routes, however, are administrative decisions and are not voted on by the board.
http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2010/10/08/cranbury_press/news/doc4cadf02fb4ab0114305916.txt |
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| Posted: Fri, Oct 8 2010, 4:33 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Good job. Change is always hard and the parents on these roads were used to a pretty accommodating bus route. Reality just caught up. Half of town has to walk their kids to school on similarly busy roads, and the rest send their kids to distant stops. I'm glad the board stuck with the experts and did not give in to the emotion. |
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| Posted: Fri, Oct 8 2010, 9:46 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| It's too bad that the new business administrator Ms.Picariello and "hands off" Principal and VP running Cranbury school now seem to not have any community spirit and are punitive in many of their decisions. That is a big change from the past and has also changed the atmosphere at school, which is the big attraction in our little town. I don't agree with upsetting people in town because you want to cut costs instead of giving them services they rightfully pay for and expect. |
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| Posted: Fri, Oct 8 2010, 10:17 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| What's the chief reason for making such change? Buses not going into the two cul-de-sacs? Are there dangerous monsters living in the two cul-de-sacs? |
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| Posted: Fri, Oct 8 2010, 10:32 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| ?? wrote: | | What's the chief reason for making such change? Buses not going into the two cul-de-sacs? Are there dangerous monsters living in the two cul-de-sacs? |
Simplifies the route and makes it quicker and more efficient, avoids having a large bus drive through a residential neighborhood unnecessarily which carries it's own danger, avoids the bus having to make turns onto and across traffic on a busy road. I can think of lots of reasons. |
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| Posted: Fri, Oct 8 2010, 11:26 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Guest wrote: | | ?? wrote: | | What's the chief reason for making such change? Buses not going into the two cul-de-sacs? Are there dangerous monsters living in the two cul-de-sacs? |
Simplifies the route and makes it quicker and more efficient, avoids having a large bus drive through a residential neighborhood unnecessarily which carries it's own danger, avoids the bus having to make turns onto and across traffic on a busy road. I can think of lots of reasons. |
why all of a sudden is this so much more dangerous than it was last year. seems made up and ridiculous |
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| Posted: Sat, Oct 9 2010, 12:37 am EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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Does this mean that the poor darlings must walk from their comfy cul-de-sacs to meet the bus at OTR?
Please say it ain't so!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They may have to walk more than 12 feet to get to a bus?
It'll work off some of the stored calories from playing too many video games. |
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| Posted: Sat, Oct 9 2010, 8:08 am EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Guest wrote: | | Guest wrote: | | ?? wrote: | | What's the chief reason for making such change? Buses not going into the two cul-de-sacs? Are there dangerous monsters living in the two cul-de-sacs? |
Simplifies the route and makes it quicker and more efficient, avoids having a large bus drive through a residential neighborhood unnecessarily which carries its own danger, avoids the bus having to make turns onto and across traffic on a busy road. I can think of lots of reasons. |
why all of a sudden is this so much more dangerous than it was last year. seems made up and ridiculous |
No one said it wasn't. But they deemed the 50 MPH road more so. Now that the speed is 35 MPH they re-evaluated. Thus the “unnecessarily” in the sentence above. Why would they need to make something up? What purpose does it service them to change the route arbitrarily, just to make the parents made? That conspiracy theory seems less credible than the idea that they actually had real reasons. |
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| Posted: Sat, Oct 9 2010, 5:52 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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I know that the new route saves time in the morning and keeps buses off of the cul de sacs but I am fuming that I can no longer sit at my front door and watch the kids get on the bus. Now I have to walk out onto Old Trenton Rd and wait for the bus. The last few mornings have been chilly and I really do not want to waste gas sitting in an idling car (I try to be environmentally friendly).
Why won't the school board reverse their decision? Why can't everything go back to the way it was last year? Why must I be inconvenienced? |
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| Posted: Sat, Oct 9 2010, 11:27 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Guest wrote: | I know that the new route saves time in the morning and keeps buses off of the cul de sacs but I am fuming that I can no longer sit at my front door and watch the kids get on the bus. Now I have to walk out onto Old Trenton Rd and wait for the bus. The last few mornings have been chilly and I really do not want to waste gas sitting in an idling car (I try to be environmentally friendly).
Why won't the school board reverse their decision? Why can't everything go back to the way it was last year? Why must I be inconvenienced? |
Get out and walk a bit, chubby! |
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| Posted: Mon, Oct 11 2010, 10:31 pm EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Anyone who has followed this issue from the beginning would know that this issue is not just about buses. The real issue is that the school administration is making major decisions without doing the proper research. In order to save face, the administration has flip-flopped on the reason for changing the stops, first it was to save time and money, and lastly for safety reasons. Regardless of the real reason, they continue scramble to find facts to justify their most recent position. And that my friends is the real problem.....it's not a "bus"problem, it's and administration problem. Keep digging, I am sure you will find more than meets the eye with many issues........ |
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| Posted: Tue, Oct 12 2010, 12:06 am EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| guest 3 wrote: | | Anyone who has followed this issue from the beginning would know that this issue is not just about buses. The real issue is that the school administration is making major decisions without doing the proper research. In order to save face, the administration has flip-flopped on the reason for changing the stops, first it was to save time and money, and lastly for safety reasons. Regardless of the real reason, they continue scramble to find facts to justify their most recent position. And that my friends is the real problem.....it's not a "bus"problem, it's and administration problem. Keep digging, I am sure you will find more than meets the eye with many issues........ |
It sounds so movie like. A conspiracy you infer ? What is the reason? Money, power, a pay off? Who is controlling the board? The Mafia? There are many questions that need to be answered, LOL
I think you need to remember that this is just a bus stop change and not the end of the world. Little Johnny and little suzie will get to school just fine. If you cannot bear to stand on OTR waiting for the bus then drive like everyone else. Boo Hoo that you must walk 50 extra feet in the morning, Boo Hoo. Many people don't get busing and always have to walk or drive their children. |
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| Posted: Tue, Oct 12 2010, 7:49 am EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Guest wrote: | | guest 3 wrote: | | Anyone who has followed this issue from the beginning would know that this issue is not just about buses. The real issue is that the school administration is making major decisions without doing the proper research. In order to save face, the administration has flip-flopped on the reason for changing the stops, first it was to save time and money, and lastly for safety reasons. Regardless of the real reason, they continue scramble to find facts to justify their most recent position. And that my friends is the real problem.....it's not a "bus"problem, it's and administration problem. Keep digging, I am sure you will find more than meets the eye with many issues........ |
It sounds so movie like. A conspiracy you infer ? What is the reason? Money, power, a pay off? Who is controlling the board? The Mafia? There are many questions that need to be answered, LOL
I think you need to remember that this is just a bus stop change and not the end of the world. Little Johnny and little suzie will get to school just fine. If you cannot bear to stand on OTR waiting for the bus then drive like everyone else. Boo Hoo that you must walk 50 extra feet in the morning, Boo Hoo. Many people don't get busing and always have to walk or drive their children. |
That is what I don't understand. With bussing and homes close to school, I never understand why so many people drive kids to school each day. I can understand driving walking students in the rain or snow, but on nice sunny days to me it makes no sense. |
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| Posted: Tue, Oct 12 2010, 9:02 am EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Do we have a roll call of how each board member voted on this issue? We all deserve to know. |
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| Posted: Tue, Oct 12 2010, 10:14 am EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Guest wrote: | | Do we have a roll call of how each board member voted on this issue? We all deserve to know. |
The article said unanimously. |
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| Posted: Tue, Oct 12 2010, 10:23 am EDT Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: School board refuses to change bus stops |
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| Quote: | | I can understand driving walking students in the rain or snow, but on nice sunny days to me it makes no sense. |
Their backpacks are too heavy. Backpacks should be no more than 10% -20% of a child's body weight, depending on the source you use. |
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