The first day of school is in the books, and we listened to parents about how it went. Most of them are saying it was relatively smooth, but there were some woes when it came to the car lines.

Excitement on the first day of school was met with stop-and-go traffic in neighborhoods.

"I wish I had left earlier in the morning, because it took me longer," said Maria Pereira, a parent at Carrollwood K-8 School.

From Carrollwood to Orange Grove Middle Magnet School, car lines got lengthy.

"Its at least a half a mile from the school, and were just in line, and its going to be at least 20 minutes to get there," said Mark Trowell, a parent at Carrollwood.

And with more than 200,000 kids and nearly 23,000 employees all heading back to Hillsborough County Schools, parents were feeling the delays.

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