10-12-2018, 05:45 PM
(10-11-2018, 09:07 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Tritag's election survey is out: http://tritag.ca/election2018/
I think that there was a missed opportunity in not contacting school board trustee candidates. School boards do a lot to shape young people's early experience of getting around such as:
- school location dictates whether students can walk/cycle or must be driven (car or bus) to school
- school boundaries and program location also dictate how students move around
- interactions with GRT influence whether students ride a GRT bus as a gateway to public transit or a school bus as a temporary flirtation with massed transit
- schools encourage active transportation such as cycling or walking school buses
For example, where I grew up, my initial walk to public school was 10 minutes. The boundaries were changed and new children in the neighbourhood required a 30 minute walk to a different school.
Transit options in the neighbourhood slowly downgraded from a regular KT city bus (three morning and evening runs), then a KT/GRT school special, and now is only served by a school bus. In another case, in order to save money, GRT combined two school special routes so the first students arrived at the high school before 7:30 (for an 8:15 start) and the second batch arrived at the next high school at 8:10 (for an 8:15 start). Needless to say, ridership went from a packed bus to a near empty bus for the first school.