Safe Routes to School Plan

Caregiver Survey About Walking and Biking to School

Q19 To identify specific walking/biking routes, barriers, opportunities, and destinations at your child’s school, visit the interactive project map:https://mnsaferoutesplanning.org/map/#/Please provide any additional comments below:

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The intersections by school need another cross walk with flashing lights and it needs to be a four way not just two way. Intersection is fuller and 17. This survey is to encourage our children to walk to school?! We live exactly 2 miles from the high school in our area. No bussing is provided for 10th grade and up. Even if a ninth grader lives On our street. My child gets Plenty of exercise through sports, working and just being an active teenager. I don’t think any student in the district, regardless of age should have to walk more than 1 mile to school. Any longer distance is a ridiculous amount of time for someone to get to school. We live in Minnesota where the weather is cold 5-6 months out of the school year. Our highschool doesn’t have enough lockers for kids as it is. Where do they expect kids to put the extra gear they have to wear in the winter? The sidewalks in the city are not cleaned off in a timely matter so a lot of these kids I do see walking are walking on the roadways. Not safe. There is no incentive big enough to risk my child’s safety to allow him to walk 2 miles to school in Shakopee. The distance of 2 miles for middle school and high schoolers is too far. It takes too long and in winter is unsafe with cold temperatures. This needs to change. The path my student would walk Is along a busy road. Winter weather prevents the sidewalks from being cleared to the surface. This forces the student to either walk on an uncleared many times icy path or to walk along the side of the road with traffic alongside them. The city needs to a MUCH better job of clearing the snow from the major sidewalks around Shakopee High School and 17th Ave (south side). They are terrible during the winter and dangerous for walking. The high school has a map on their website that determines distance for walking/bussing which would make my kids bussers. When I called to have them bussed, they told me they don't use that map to determine and that my kids have to walk. Very disappointing as a parent. 17/16 and 16/83 are not safe for kids to cross. pedestrian bridge crossing would be great! make pedestrians the priority! :-) thank you

10/27/2020 7:14 PM

10/27/2020 1:20 PM

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10/27/2020 9:18 AM

10/27/2020 9:06 AM

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10/23/2020 12:19 PM

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10/7/2020 12:35 PM

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SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PLAN SHAKOPEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, SHAKOPEE, MN