Safe Routes to School Plan

Introduction to Programs The Safe Routes to School movement acknowledges that infrastructure changes are necessary for shifting school travel behavior, but are insufficient on their own. Programs are a necessary component of any successful SRTS plan.

While engineering improvements such as sidewalks, crosswalks, and bikeways are important, equally im portant are education programs to give students basic safety skills, encouragement programs to highlight walking and bicycling to school as fun and normal, engagement tools to give all community members a voice, and evaluation of the impact of investments and non-infrastructure efforts. When planning and implementing SRTS programs, it is important to design events and activities that are inclusive of students of all backgrounds and abilities. Often, programs that help to get more youth walking, biking, and rolling lead to increased public support for infrastructure projects - they can be an important first step towards building out the physical elements that make walking, biking, and rolling safer and more com fortable. And relative to certain infrastructure projects, most programs are very low cost.

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