My High School shows up on Windows Live Local!

So I was browsing Windows Live Local tonight… and I noticed that my High School and Middle School now show up in the Bird’s Eye View. Here’s a resized and marked up version:

Neato. BTW, notice that I called out where a parking lot is for the High School. There’s another parking lot that’s just off screen. The one pictured here represents about 40% of the parking spots. That’s for teachers, staff, and students. Needless to say, there weren’t that many spots.

It always boggles my mind when I drive by some of the high schools here in the Bay Area and see the enormous traffic backups due to drop-offs, or read the Mountain View Voice and find out that the top issue stressed over by the Board is how they can afford more parking.

This is just a shot in the dark, but maybe school buses do work!

Just thinking about all the money that could be saved by all parties:
-the district wouldn’t have to spend time and money buying more land to build more parking lots (buying land in the Bay Area? forget about it!)
-regular people could spend less time in traffic caused by cars dropping off kids at school
-parents could save time by not having to drop off their kids, parents could save money by not having to buy a car and pay for insurance for their kids
-neighbors wouldn’t have to deal with this massive commotion everyday
-everyone would save gas

I guess that might be too progressive thinking – even for the Bay Area

FWIW, here’s a picture of Lakeville Elementary school – where I went for one year:

(Not to beat a dead horse, but I think my local Arby’s has more parking than that.)

And while I’m at it, here’s where I went to elementary school for most of those years: PS 24 in Flushing, Queens.

Not quite “in the hood”, but not quite the nice suburbs either.