why can't students walk to school?

curmudgeon alert: I walked 45 minutes to school, each way. even when 20 degrees, or when 99 degrees.

I'm in! I'm going to vote Yes on this proposition tonight. We gotta keep Seattle moving forward and I think losing any bus service at this time will only make traffic worse. Since we are fortunate to have urban growth through our tech sector, I figure we have to support that growth through smart transportation. Let's do it, Seattle!

Voted no..twice in my household. Da toots are crying wolf.

@1, because most students already spend 45 minutes (or much more than that) riding the buses to school. A 45 minute bus ride is about 3 hours of walking.

45 minutes of walking is about 3 miles. Most students live much farther than 3 miles from their school. There are over 9,000 high school students in this city, some can get a ride to school or drive, most take the bus.

That doesn't even count the middle schoolers (11-14 year olds) who also take metro to school.

@6

They probably hate you $15NOW, something-for-nothing, gimmegimmegimme types just as much......

I'm MORE THAN HAPPY to pay a bit more on my car tabs to help this public service stay alive. Do all those people who are against this prop forget that 10 years ago we had to pay WAY MORE than $60 for car tabs? Only a small step in the right direction. VOTE YES ON PROP 1 people. For the good of your community. And the teens who are smart & brave for standing up for what they believe in!

NO!NO!NO! and no on 15now!!!

I go to high school near greenlake, and while my school is private and provides buses, when I have to stay after for something or just go to the park with friends after school, metro is a life saver. To go to Queen Anne takes 45 minutes - an hour, but I have friends who rely on bus service to get back to West Seattle, and it takes them nearly 2 hours or more each day. Cutting service would drastically limit my mobility, so I really hope it passes. Also, the video is down.

Alas, the video still seems to be down. Nevertheless, this (schoolkids on Metro) is just one more reason to vote for transit funding. Seattle schools have been gradually backing out of running busses for students for years. They started contracting out their transportation (rather than owning/running their own fleet) almost 20 years ago -- they've had a couple of different contractors, with mixed results (drivers often do not know the city, making the first couple months of school a real learning curve). Shifting high schoolers to Metro started with the alternative schools, but is pretty standard now. I live across the street from Roosevelt HS, and the #48 is packed with students every morning and afternoon. (we actually call that route the high school flyer, since they run past Ballard, Roosevelt, and Garfield and end near Franklin.) For many of the high schools, the only yellow busses you see are transportation for special needs kids, which is mostly paid for with ADA funds.