Not sure if the buses got this bad, but Bainbridge students did have to get cozy during the first days of school.
Looks like a very, very large parking fee increase at the high school may have caused the record-breaking busing boom.
Read on for the full story….
While you’re at it, check out island mom/blogger Tamara Sellman’s post on the district’s overcrowded buses. Sellman believes increasing bus ridership may lead to good things, including fewer “mommy chauffeurs and ‘greener’ kids.”
One of the hopeful things that has come out of the decades-old Ericksen-Hildebrand debate (see last story post) is that people have done more than complain and dig in their heels. They’ve offered a range of compromises and solutions, and several have e-mailed them to me after the story’s publication.
I didn’t have the space in the story to get into all the ideas, so I’d like to offer this blog as a venue for people to post ideas on how to solve the Ericksen-Hildebrand conundrum.
So, what do you think?
Leave the park green, the streets unconnected, and let the walkers and cyclists rule?
Strike a balance, perhaps with a winding, narrow connection that paves a portion of the park?
Or, as one commenter offered after the online version of the story: “Thank you Mr. Blue Truck for doing what I have wanted to do for some time. You are my hero! Bring in the dozer, cut the road and we’ll find a way to name the street after you!”
So, there you have another option: pave the park and name the newly connected thoroughfare “Mr. Blue Truck Street.”
The city’s long debated it. Business leaders have long demanded it. The neighborhood has long feared it.
A big blue pickup truck last week rammed through and created it.
The ‘it,’ in this case, is a connection between Ericksen Avenue and Hildebrand Lane, two Winslow roadways that have remained a few yards apart while fostering decades of debate.
The unknown truck driver added his two cents by crashing through traffic cones, sandwich boards, plastic signs and a thick steel chain.
