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Board weighs adding a bus route after safety concerns on Stuart's Run Road
Summary
Board members and staff mapped long walks, narrow shoulders and timing conflicts on Stuart's Run Road, considered routing students to Milan Park, adding a separate run or hiring a substitute/retiree driver, and directed transportation staff to explore options and report back.
Concerns about student safety at bus stops on Stuart's Run Road dominated a lengthy portion of the Monongalia County Board of Education meeting on Nov. 12.
Teacher Christine (Speaker 4) told the board she drove the route to assess walking conditions, mapped distances from homes to the Moose Lodge bus stop and described narrow shoulders, brush close to the road and an intersection she called "very scary" to turn onto from Little Indian Creek Road. She said students living there face walks ranging from roughly 31 to 46 minutes to reach the Moose Lodge stop and…
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