Milton School Board considers dropping some bus service to Harmony school
MILTON—The school board will take some time for more study before ending bus service for children who live east of Highway 26 and north of Highway 14 and attend Harmony Elementary School, 4243 E. Rotamer Road, Janesville.
The board on Monday night tabled the issue and will study sidewalks being installed on Rotamer Road as well as traffic issues at Harmony school.
Ending the service could save the district $11,000. But even more important, it could prevent the district from spending $30,000 to start a new bus route, board member Mike Pierce said.

Jul 15, 2008 at 9:45 a.m.
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The district needs to improve the drop off zone and pick up area at Harmony. We can't park on Rotamer Rd and yet we have to park to pick up our children because we have to go behind the school to do so. All the other schools in the district have street parking options...we don't at Harmony.
Jul 15, 2008 at 8:34 a.m.
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This is a bad idea. Do they realize how far of a walk that is from the far southeast corner of the subdivision, near Wuthering Hills and Hwy 14? That's gotta be a good 2 mile walk and many of the streets in that subdivision do not have sidewalks.
Jul 15, 2008 at 7:18 a.m.
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The thing is that there's not sidewalks in place here & we live a long ways from school for a k-3rd grader to walk along busy roads so there's no way my child could walk there anyway. A lot of parents will have to drive their kids to school & there's not not enough room in that area for decent traffic flow. There's a lot of facts not being considered.
Jul 14, 2008 at 10:43 p.m.
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Joe I agree.If the sidewalks are in ok. I do have concerns over the kindergarten students but it wouldn't be that much diffrent than when I grew up in Beloit. I mean not like you who had to walk up hill barefoot both ways in ten feet of snow 20 miles. Also the bubblegum kid says hi along with the wife.
Jul 14, 2008 at 10:19 p.m.
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Hey... you want to live in suburbia... you got it. Wow, that was a "rural" school not long ago. If the sidewalks are in place, I'd agree that the bus service is no longer necessary.
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