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Resident urges board to reassess walking routes, proposes annual bus-seat lottery to improve student safety
Summary
At the April 23 board meeting, resident Lauren Cosgrove urged the Wayne Township Public School District to re-evaluate walking routes to Skyler Kofax Middle School amid new development and wildlife incidents and proposed an annual bus-seat lottery to fill underused seats on existing routes.
A resident and district employee asked the Wayne Township Public School District board on April 23 to re-evaluate walking routes near Skyler Kofax Middle School and consider a bus-seat lottery to improve student safety. Lauren Cosgrove said her home falls just under the district’s two-mile threshold for busing and that changing traffic patterns and recent wildlife shelter-in-place events make the walk unsafe for students.
Cosgrove said the route had last been formally assessed around 2018 and described an increase in construction traffic on Jeffrey Way and more frequent wildlife encounters, including bears, that…
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