Yes, in my backyard

You've heard of NIMBY, right? If not, it means "not in my backyard" and generally refers to neighborhoods that don't want certain types of local development, e.g., liquor stores, prisons (!), rail lines, etc.

Well, I've got a NIMBY situation. Just two blocks from where I live, a former elementary school that has been used for adult education classes is going to be re-activated this fall as a middle school. The kids who will be attending this school were displaced because their existing facility is being renovated.

The upshot is that hundreds of middle-school students will be streaming into our otherwise quiet environs each morning and streaming out each afternoon. My neighbors are, how shall I say, not happy. But, the silver lining is that school buses will pick up many of the students at their former middle school and transport them to the new campus, reducing the number of cars flowing into and out of the neighborhood. Congestion reduction is often overlooked as one of the big pluses of school bus transportation.

The more buses, the better!

Keep it safe.

Steve