LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jefferson County Public School (JCPS) parents waited in long car rider lines at Noe Middle School for about 30 minutes to an hour on Thursday.
"That's why I got here early to try to avoid that, and I have another child to pick up," JCPS parent Caleigh Bell said.
It took Bell an hour just to get through the line Thursday morning.
She said there were three car rider lines at Noe Middle School since students were being dropped off and picked up by grade levels.
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"There's no direction on which route everyone should take to get to their pick up and drop off points so it was a little confusing trying to figure out am I in the line for Noe," Bell said.
She wasn't the only parent who was confused.
Tiffani Priddis also had trouble finding the right line at Noe Middle while picking up her child.
"I've been yelled at, honked at and told just 'find the end of the line honey' and I don't know where that is," she said.
Priddis believed most parents opted to drive their students to school after most families lost transportation this year.
"My worry is, oh I snake around, am I in the right line; we're all lining up to be released at the exact same time, 1200 students," she said.
Eventually, traffic started flowing after a crossing guard intervened. That wasn't the case at Audubon Elementary. JCPS chairman Dr. Corrie Shull told WHAS11 News he waited in line two hours.
Superintendent Marty Pollio said the district will call on JCPS law enforcement to help with the car ride lines.
"Our police department will help us out with that because we have to have some traffic control in front of those schools," he said.
But JCPS families at Englehard Elementary had little to no wait.
Cory Keith said they waited "probably 10 minutes." He gave kudos to JCPS for making transportation smoother this year.
"The car rider lines are getting really better," he said.
Pollio said he hopes Friday will be better and schools will be in a routine by the middle of next week.
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