The number of students who are walking and biking to Wolftrap and Vienna Elementary Schools have exceeded the number of those schools' "deemed walkers" on some days this week.
Of the 389 kids at Vienna Elementary School, 82 are deemed walkers -- students who live within a mile of the school that do not have to content with any major hazards like crossing a busy road. Each day this week, the number of students walking to the school has been almost one and a half times that number, said Sean McCall, a Safe Routes to School Parent volunteer. Even on Tuesday, the lowest turnout day, the participation rate was more than 100 percent of the walking population, he said.
At Wolftrap, there are 597 students, 213 of whom are deemed walkers.The school exceeded that number on Wednesday, and came just three short today.
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Cunningham Park Elementary School has the largest number of walkers, at 358. They've come close to hitting half of that number on most days.
The week-long challenge concludes Friday, when commuters will also take to the W+OD trail
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Thursday results:
Walkers
Bikers
Total Single-Car Dropoff
Carpool
Cunningham Park
186
11
197
58
73 (32 cars)
Wolftrap
153
57
210 ~10
127 (100 cars)
Vienna
118
27
145
not counted
not counted
Total 457 95 552 ~68
200
And Overall:
Monday Walkers/Bikers Tuesday Walkers/Bikers Wednesday Walkers/Bikers Thursday
Total Cunningham Park 161 *(adjusted from original)
142 187 197 687 Wolftrap 171 136 227 210 744 Vienna 117 88 121 145 471 Totals 449 366 535 552 1,902
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