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This wasn't a problem when students rode school busses instead of being individually chauffeured.

Alternatively, Paris solved this problem by closing the nearby streets to cars, so the students can safely walk to school.

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The busses aren't running because our spendthrift government "cut spending" to enable property tax cuts. This is a big unspoken part of the charter-school transition.

How far back are you going? It was a problem in the 90s and early 2000s, even with multiple buses. It doesn't take very many parents to pick up or drop off at once to create a traffic jam. What amazed me was how many parents just accepted the jam instead of dropping off or picking up about a block away.

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