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CaptionAbout two dozen residents of Rolesville's Hampton Pointe subdivision came Tuesday evening to protest a plan to run school buses through their neighborhood.
Residents packed the Rolesville Town Hall during the commissioner's regular meeting.
Plans are in the works for a new Rolesville Middle School to be completed by 2010.
The design calls for school buses to access the school by driving through the Hampton Pointe subdivision.
"For those few buses that need to come out and deliver to that school, it gives them a way to get back out to the neighborhoods quickly," said Mike Burriss with Wake County Public Schools.
Burriss said between four and six buses would be driving through the neighborhood twice during the day.
Still, residents are concerned about the extra traffic and are urging the town and school system to find another route.
"We're just very concerned about the additional traffic and the load it's going to have on our small neighborhood here," said resident James Bowman.
Rolesville Mayor Frank Eagles said at the meeting that he is willing to work with the residents and the school to devise an alternate route for the buses to access the school.
He said one possibility to obtain permission from the City of Raleigh, which owns land around the nearby Rolesville water tower, and run the buses through a road there.
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By PristineFamily on 08/20 10:05 AM
We live on the the street which is proposed as the lead-in for the bus loop at the new school. While we are VERY much in favor of having the new school located in Rolesville and adjacent to Hampton Pointe, we are COMPLETELY opposed to the idea of having all of the bus traffic (not to mention the carpool folks who WILL attempt to avoid the designated carpool entrance currently planned to enter from Burlington Mills Road) pass right by our home. Five days a week for an average of 50 weeks out of the year with bus traffic blaring by on the way in and out both morning and afternoon in a neighborhood with young children and families who enjoy being outdoors??? There must be a better alternative such as the one attributed to Mayor Eagles (partnering with the City of Raleigh to use water tower property as a thoroughfare) that will not disrupt the neighborhood and will not increase traffic in an area that is already difficult to exit in the mornings. And have those proposing the use of Hampton Lake Drive and Pristine Lane as the bus entrance considered that on the opposite side of 401, there is another huge neighborhood, Carlton Pointe, under construction? Therefore, there will be additional traffic entering the intersection of 401/Hampton Lake Drive/Jonesville Road. We seriously hope that all parties involved can arrive at a sensible solution that would not set a precedent for bus traffic to be routed through neighborhoods adjoining schools.
By Koziebear on 08/20 07:54 AM
Our children play in the areas that they are proposing sending at least 30 busses through in the morning and 30 busses through in the afternoon, ALL YEAR ROUND. WCPSS educates our children, should they not care about the SAFETY of our children. It is all about the safety.
We love the idea of the school, we just do not want the busses traveling through our one entrance subdivision.
By JandCrys on 08/20 12:25 AM
I don’t know of any school that only has 4 to 6 buses. Wake county school officials told Hampton Pointe residents last week that the school would have between 20 and 30 busses, all comming in and out of the school through Hampton Pointe. Are these busses going to be doing routes for other schools as well? If so, then there will be even more traffic as they return to the middle school.
By plantfreak78 on 08/19 10:39 PM
I live in Hampton Pointe and we were told that 1,300 children would be attending the new middle school. The average bus has 26 seats and can carry 52 children at two to a seat. So I want to know how 1,300 kids are going to fit on “four to six buses”. Even if half of the children carpool, you’d still need 12.5 buses.
And those buses will all have to travel through our small entrance and a second neighborhood street twice a day, five days a week. No other neighborhood in the area is forced to endure this; why should we be? I welcome the new middle school but not it’s traffic.
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