I sure hope the Lake Washington School District has considered the safety of the children when moving bus stops for budget purposes.

I don’t see much verbiage to that effect. Has the district driven the roads they changed, in person, in the early morning hours to validate the safety? Have they considered only making changes to those routes that offer a safer walk?

It would be different if there were side walks and street lights.

Is the district willing to fund street lights for the safety of the kids? I highly doubt it since they are cutting back. One child getting struck by a car, will cost the district a lot of money from lawsuits, not to mention what it would do the families involved.

My street in particular is very dangerous in the early morning hours when it is dark.

There are no street lights or sidewalks, and the cars speed up to three times too fast, but budget cuts for the police force, affected having police available to monitor our street. The speed may be posted at 25 miles per hour, but speeds top 50 all the time along there.

Driving in the early morning in the dark, you can’t see people walking often times until you are upon the person. Even with reflective gear.

Although there are many ways of having the kids where reflective equipment, it is still very dangerous.

In our case, I cannot imagine that moving the stop to Alcott Elementary School from the east side corner of 228th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 47th Street 2,640 feet south closer to the school makes a huge budget difference. But it can make a huge difference for a person walking on foot, when a car strikes them.

The buses hold a large amount of kids to start with, the stops shouldn’t make a difference, other than people will pull the kids off the bus line for safety reasons.

Jean Bolender, Redmond