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Resident urges district to restore designated bus routes after neighborhood safety concerns
Summary
A Germantown neighborhood resident told the board that school buses are cutting through narrow residential streets, creating safety and quality‑of‑life problems and asked the district to reinstate a past policy on designated bus routes.
A Germantown resident, Robin Klein, used the public‑comment period to urge the Dover Public School District to address what she described as increasingly problematic school‑bus routing through an older residential neighborhood near Dover Middle School and Eastover Elementary School.
Klein said buses routinely use narrow, 90‑degree residential turns to avoid Route 46 and that the routing places heavy vehicle traffic on tight streets that were not designed for regular bus traffic. "These buses are coming in every direction, north and south, east and west, crossing each other on very narrow streets," Klein said, and she asked the board to reinstate a policy that previously designated bus routes to keep buses off those small neighborhood streets. She also noted that a previous one‑way change on East MacFarlane behind the school had been made to address a similar concern and suggested the district revisit that approach.
District response and next steps: Klein said she had previously raised the issue with transportation directors and recently spoke with the new director of transportation and with the district’s security and safety staffer, Lou Renshaw. The superintendent and security staff had conversations with Klein and agreed to follow up; the board closed the public comment period with no formal board action but acknowledged administration would investigate routing and policy options.
Why it matters: residents described repeated occurrences and expressed concern for pedestrian safety, vehicle conflicts and wear on neighborhood infrastructure. The administration did not commit to a particular remedy during public comment but said staff will review current routes and policies and report back to the board.
