About two dozen residents of Rolesville's Hampton Pointe subdivision came Tuesday evening to protest a plan to run school buses through their neighborhood.

Residents packed the Rolesville Town Hall during the commissioner's regular meeting.

Plans are in the works for a new Rolesville Middle School to be completed by 2010.

The design calls for school buses to access the school by driving through the Hampton Pointe subdivision.

"For those few buses that need to come out and deliver to that school, it gives them a way to get back out to the neighborhoods quickly," said Mike Burriss with Wake County Public Schools.

Burriss said between four and six buses would be driving through the neighborhood twice during the day.

Still, residents are concerned about the extra traffic and are urging the town and school system to find another route.

"We're just very concerned about the additional traffic and the load it's going to have on our small neighborhood here," said resident James Bowman.

Rolesville Mayor Frank Eagles said at the meeting that he is willing to work with the residents and the school to devise an alternate route for the buses to access the school.

He said one possibility to obtain permission from the City of Raleigh, which owns land around the nearby Rolesville water tower, and run the buses through a road there.