Dear Episcopal Community Members,
On Monday, April 23, at 9:00 am the Jones Creek bridge crossing Woodland Ridge Blvd will be closed for repairs, requiring commuters to access campus from Jones Creek Road. Please see the attached map to review the traffic flow around the campus.

Beginning this week, (Monday, April 16th through Friday, April 20th) the city will be painting lanes down the length of the Boulevard and posting dynamic message boards notifying all drivers of the upcoming bridge closure. 

​We anticipate the flow of traffic to and from campus to be as follows:

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ENTERING CAMPUS:

• Traffic will move in a single lane until the school entrance. 
  • After the median begins, cars should stay in the left lane along the median (please do not enter the parking lane). 
  • Drivers accessing the back of campus will turn left on Chapelwood. (Students, faculty, staff, and buses.) 
  • Drivers accessing the VPAC circle will turn left in front of the school and enter through the main entrance.
    • Drivers will not be able to go straight on Woodland Ridge Blvd., past the front entrance of the school to make a turn. You must either turn into the school or make an immediate U-turn. 
  • Drivers accessing the Front Lawn will make a U-turn in front of main entrance and merge left into the parking lane for unloading and loading students.
    • Students should be unloaded and loaded at the Chapel end of the Front Lawn. Please do not  unload or load students in front of the Alumni House - pull up as far as you can.
    • When there are no spaces, drivers should circle the median by staying in the left hand lane and make a U-Turn at Chapelwood.

EXITING CAMPUS:

• From the VPAC circle, cars will exit right out of the main entrance and merge left 
• From the Front Lawn - cars will merge left after they pull up towards the Chapel and have unloaded/loaded students.
• From Chapelwood - cars will turn right and merge into left lane (there will be no left hand turn off of Chapelwood)
• When the divided boulevard ends all cars will have merged into one lane of traffic.
• Access to Jones Creek Road should be RIGHT TURN only.  Drivers will then be able to use the J-turn lanes to head towards S. Harrell’s Ferry. Or stay straight to head towards Coursey. 

In order to help reduce the number of cars arriving and departing at one time, we are asking our families to carpool if at all possible and to consider using our bus service, (without charge), for this week.  Information is available here​​

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DIVISION-SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS

Lower School:

• We will have an earlier staggered dismissal while the bridge is being repaired.
  • PreK-3 - will be dismissed at 2:15
  • Frazer students without siblings will be dismissed at 2:30
  • Grades 1 - 5 will be dismissed at 2:45
  • LS carpool will run from 2:45 - 3:05 and then students will be moved to a COMPLIMENTARY Extended Care - 3:05 - 3:45
  • Regular Extended Care will begin at 3:45 as normal, and those not registered will be charged a daily rate
• Cars should turn left into the VPAC circle and follow normal carpool procedures. 
• When exiting the school, drivers need to turn right and merge carefully into the left lane, paying particular attention to the people in the crosswalk and the cars making a U-turn to merge right into the Front Lawn carpool.  We will continue to have sheriff deputies there to assist in this intersection. 

Middle School & Upper School:

• Dismissal is at 3:20. Please do not arrive before 3:05 so that we can clear the early Lower School dismissal.
• Students will load from the Chapel end of the Front Lawn so that we can pull cars all the way up the lawn. Once cars are unloaded or loaded, drivers should keep pulling up until they can merge left.
• If there are no spaces on the Front Lawn, cars should stay in the left hand lane and continue to circle making U-turns at Chapelwood and in front of the school.
• Students will only be able to unload and load from the Front Lawn. 
• For safety reasons, students will not be allowed to cross the Boulevard to get into a waiting car. 
• Students will not be allowed to go into the street to load nor should they unload from the left hand lane.
• All cars leaving the back of campus onto Chapelwood will turn right onto Woodland Ridge Blvd. There will be no left hand turn.

Bus Riders - (current and those interested for this week)

• Pick up and drop off times may be slightly altered due to the bridge repairs.  
• The school’s Transportation Department and the Bus Drivers will have the details specific for your route.
• For those interested in riding the bus during this period of construction, information about routes can be found here.  There will be no charge for this week.