Paramount Theatre
Opposed to Part of AISD Plan
RECEIVED Fri., Jan. 28, 2011
Dear Sir,
I am opposed to the Austin ISD plan to build a bus depot in our neighborhood at 7200 Bluff Springs Rd. due to serious safety concerns about how increased vehicular traffic will place our children at risk. The project is scheduled to have 150-175 school buses plus 225 employee vehicles making approximately 600 bus trips and 450 employee trips a day to and from this site.
There are two neighborhood schools, Langford and Perez elementaries, that are within a mile of this proposed project location. I fail to understand the logic of this site due to its proximity to these neighborhood schools, where children in the vicinity are required to walk to school. Being elementary children they are small and unpredictable, which makes the increased traffic created by this project, particularly that of high profile vehicles such as school buses, a particular danger to them.
Additionally, this will substantially increase traffic on already congested residential streets. There are more desirable sites for this bus depot that are far away from neighborhood schools and on more substantial roads with better infrastructure to support this type of vehicular traffic. There is plenty of available land and better street infrastructure on East Slaughter Lane for example. This site is less than two miles south of the currently proposed location.
For the safety of our children, I beg the assistance of anyone in our community who is able to help our neighborhood as we fight this project, our children's lives are at risk if you don't. Please, nothing is worth more than the life of a child, and your support can mean the difference between saving them or losing this fight and AISD placing our children at risk with this project.
We are battling a huge entity – AISD – and we are mere citizens, but with your help we can make a difference. Will you help us, please, help protect our children?
I am opposed to the Austin ISD plan to build a bus depot in our neighborhood at 7200 Bluff Springs Rd. due to serious safety concerns about how increased vehicular traffic will place our children at risk. The project is scheduled to have 150-175 school buses plus 225 employee vehicles making approximately 600 bus trips and 450 employee trips a day to and from this site.
There are two neighborhood schools, Langford and Perez elementaries, that are within a mile of this proposed project location. I fail to understand the logic of this site due to its proximity to these neighborhood schools, where children in the vicinity are required to walk to school. Being elementary children they are small and unpredictable, which makes the increased traffic created by this project, particularly that of high profile vehicles such as school buses, a particular danger to them.
Additionally, this will substantially increase traffic on already congested residential streets. There are more desirable sites for this bus depot that are far away from neighborhood schools and on more substantial roads with better infrastructure to support this type of vehicular traffic. There is plenty of available land and better street infrastructure on East Slaughter Lane for example. This site is less than two miles south of the currently proposed location.
For the safety of our children, I beg the assistance of anyone in our community who is able to help our neighborhood as we fight this project, our children's lives are at risk if you don't. Please, nothing is worth more than the life of a child, and your support can mean the difference between saving them or losing this fight and AISD placing our children at risk with this project.
We are battling a huge entity – AISD – and we are mere citizens, but with your help we can make a difference. Will you help us, please, help protect our children?
Respectfully,
Maria Shield
Maria Shield
