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Examples of successful SRTS projects from across the country
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Example 1
  • Construct a sidewalk from a local elementary school to an adjacent mobile home park
  • Install bike racks
  • Create a walking school bus initiative
  • Educate students on the importance of safety and living a healthy lifestyle
  • Encourage students to walk and bicycle to and from school
  • Purchase and distribute educational materials

Partners: Regional health department

Example 2
  • Fill in gaps in the city's existing sidewalk grid surrounding a middle school and three elementary schools
  • Train and educate students about the health benefits and safety considerations of walking and biking to and from school
  • Train individuals to establish a local Safe Routes to School program
  • Create a walking school bus program
  • Conduct direct traffic enforcement at and near the schools

Partners: City police department

Example 3
  • Install the following:
    • Crosswalk at the intersection of a collector street and a U.S. highway
    • Sidewalk along a major collector street and other sidewalk renovations
    • Crosswalk striping
    • Traffic signs
  • Administer educational programs
  • Provide safety crossing-guards and SRTS training

Partners: Family Resource Center of a local elementary school, school district resource officer, and the city police department

Example 4
  • Install the following:
    • New pedestrian crossing lights and crosswalks
    • Sidewalk extension
    • New school zone signs
    • Bicycle storage
  • Implement bicycle safety education presentations
  • Establish walking school buses
Example 5
  • Plan, design, and construct a half-mile multi-use path connecting a local middle school to trails and greenways and to nearby housing
  • Develop a student walker/bicyclist identification system
  • Train volunteers to assist with walker/bicyclist education and activities
  • Offer special safety days to encourage and educate students
  • Provide classroom instruction and public awareness campaigns

Partners: district health department, city citizen information & assistance department, city public works department, city-county planning commission, and the city-county greenways commission

Example 6
  • Install the following:
    • Continuous sidewalks along a collector street
    • Install a crossing signal at the mid-block crosswalk in front of the school
    • Install driver speed feedback display signs
    • Bike lane striping and signage on 41st Street
  • Increase speed enforcement
  • Form a Walk/Bike School steering committee
  • Provide safety and physical activity education and encouragement programs
Example 7
  • Install the following:
    • Sidewalks along a street adjacent to the school
    • A crossing of a railroad mainline
    • A walking/biking trail
  • School district develops a Walk Route Plan
  • Bicycle officer patrols the designated route before and after school
  • Parents and the community engage in a safety education program that includes a railroad safety curriculum

Partners: City government

Example 8
  • Install low cost traffic safety improvements on urban roads near the school
  • School site evaluation element designed by recognized leaders in safety research and involving students in measurement and assessment
  • Walking School Bus program coordinated by a part time staff person
  • Education program led by parents and teachers
  • Encouragement efforts coordinated with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Partners: Parents, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Example 9
  • Construct a multi-use path connecting four schools and a new housing development to the schools, library and swimming pool
  • Conduct bicycle saafety education
  • Increase traffic speed enforcement

Partners: Local law enforcement

Example 10
  • Upgrade bicycle/pedestrian signage along the route
  • Encourage an active, safe and healthy alternative to driving neighborhood children to school through an innovative education and enforcement program
  • Organize Walk to School events, activities, and safety outreach
Example 11
  • Construct a multi-use path
  • Establish a committee of parents and educators to host a series of safety and physical activity education and promotional activities
Example 12
  • Install traffic safety imrpovements including pathways
  • Install a crossing on a major arterial street
  • Add police enforcement
  • Initiate a pedestrian safety education campaign
  • Develop and distribute maps of the pathway system

Partners: School district and city government

Example 13
  • Construct a bicycle and pedestrian overpass
  • Conduct a railway safety education program
  • Conduct a general pedestrian safety program

Partners: Local law enforcement

Example 14
  • Connect sidewalks along the main walking and biking route
  • Improve speed enforcement by local police
  • Implement a school-wide safety education curriculum

Partners: Local Safe Kids Coalition

Example 15
  • Install the following:
    • Sidewalks along key walk routes
    • Traffic calming measures (speed humps, etc.)
    • Pedestrian-scale lighting
    • Traffic safety signage
  • Implement a student safety education program

Partners: Health, planning, and police departments of Native American Tribe

 
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