How Did Rockwood Transportation Go for First Day Back To School?
As St. Louis County’s largest school district, more than 22,000 students in the Rockwood School District headed back to school this morning. Share the best, worst and most dangerous observations about student-related transportation.
Main intersection at Eureka High School on Tuesday morning near 8 a.m. was predictably busy. Making a lefthand turn out of the school's parking lot (north) may mean waiting through two or three stoplights until traffic heading the opposite way allows for it.
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Here's a chance to share how various forms of transportation fared for the first day of Rockwood School District—ones that worked well or ones that could use a little rethinking.
- Any late buses?
- Any traffic jams?
- Joyful bus drivers?
- Worst intersections due to school-related traffic?
- Best and worst parking lot arrangements?
- Crowded buses?
- Most dangerous spots due to school-related traffic?
- Student driver feedback?
Rockwood officials said more than 120 buses rolled out of the bus garage located at Pond Elementary School in Wildwood to pick up 12,000-plus students across the district.
Rockwood-related buses will travel more than 5 million miles this year, according to district estimates.
Please share the good, bad and ugly of Rockwood's transportation on the first day Back To School.
Tell us in the comments.
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Rockwood School District -- Administrative Center
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Pond Elementary School
17200 Manchester Rd, Grover, MO
Julie Brown Patton
11:46 am on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
One report that Rockwood middle and high school buses ran on time this morning, per a Eureka-Wildwood Patch reader/Facebook friend.
Julie Brown Patton
11:48 am on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
A different report that Babler Elementary bus forgot a subdivision and showed up at 9:50 a.m. instead, per a Eureka-Wildwood Patch reader/Facebook friend.
Julie Brown Patton
3:09 pm on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Buses in Fenton were reportedly on time today, based on a third report from a Eureka-Wildwood Patch reader/Facebook friend. http://www.facebook.com/WildwoodPatch
jennifer mcmurray
4:10 pm on Wednesday, August 15, 2012
My child still isn't home yet from Westridge school.