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How long does it take your child to get to school?

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QBEE · 12/03/2011 20:01

via public transport or otherwise?

I was just looking into bus routes and was astonished to find that the journey that would take me twenty minutes to half an hour, taking into account traffic, in the car will end up being one hour and forty minutes on the bus. Shock

To get home there are only three buses heading back this way that stop within a couple of miles of the house and two of those run before dc finishes school and the other an hour after although the route back is quicker than the route there...

Add to that the cost involved and it seems like madness! There will be no mates on the bus to pass the time with either and it is not a school bus.

We live approx four miles from the school but the bus goes through a few different villages and towns and there is no alternative quicker route!

Is this unusual? Confused

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QBEE · 13/03/2011 21:18

I checked the chool website but they do not operate buses.

There is a nearer secondary but eldest has been allocated this particular one and we are happy with this, I just did not anticipate the journey being so long.

Will work around it like other parents have to. Hopefully once mates are made there will be someone who we can do car shares etc with.

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Linnet · 13/03/2011 20:56

10 minute walk.

Clary · 13/03/2011 20:55

About 7 mins walk.

It's our local school (obv) but some of Ds1's mates travel further and by bus. Furthest any significant number of students travel prob a couple of miles tho so easily walkable/cycleable [sp??]

Are you in the sticks OP? Apart from the school we go to, there at least 3 other secondaries nearer than 4 miles away, so much less of a journey.

HSMM · 13/03/2011 20:51

An hour each way. Not much difference between me driving and the public bus.

TrinityIsABunnyMunchingRhino · 13/03/2011 08:34

no buses but only a 8 to 10 min drive depending on traffic

purepurple · 13/03/2011 08:31

We live just down the road, so it takes DD 5-10 mins.
OP, have you checked with the school to see if there are any school buses? We live in an area with excellent bus services but all the high schools (and colleges) have dedicated school buses too.

thunderbird69 · 13/03/2011 08:28

Anywhere between 20-40 mins in the car. No buses available. Sad

Op - are there any other buses they could take that would take them closer to home and then they could walk the rest of the way?

bruffin · 13/03/2011 08:14

20 minutes walk to station
8 minutes on train
15 minutes walk the other end
They leave about 7.45 to get to school and get home about 4.30

20 -30 minutes by car

RatherBeOnThePiste · 12/03/2011 23:07

2 mins to the station
5 mins on the train
10 mins walking

Not too bad but I shouldn't want it to be too far away as they both do so much sport and stuff after school.

crazycarol · 12/03/2011 21:10

10 mins by car but 40mins-1 hour by bus (actually 2 buses)

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QBEE · 12/03/2011 20:11

It is ridiculous, isn't it!?

Have been looking at bloody rightmove at houses next to the school Blush Grin

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Goblinchild · 12/03/2011 20:07

One of our local colleges is in the next town, by car it's 15 mins but the school bus can take up to an hour.
My son walks to school, 10 mins normally, 5 if he runs.
Are you lookingfor September? Are there alternatives? Couldd you double up the schoolrun with aparent in a similar position?

justagirlfromedgware · 12/03/2011 20:06

20 minutes on a school bus with 5 minutes' walk at either end.

belledechocchipcookie · 12/03/2011 20:02

An hour each way.

activate · 12/03/2011 20:02

20 minute walk (just over a mile)

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