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Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is an international movement designed to create safe, convenient and fun opportunities for children to walk and bicycle to school. Safe Routes to School is helping address critical issues related to children's health, traffic congestion, public safety and the environment.
Safe Routes to School works on the community level and focuses on the 5 E's:
In the City of Buffalo, Green Options Buffalo teamed up with the Buffalo Public School and the Public Works Department and has been awarded a SRTS grant from the New York State Department of Transportation. Scheduled to launch in the Fall of 2010, we will have a multi-tiered approach that will encompass all five E’s of the program with a focus at Hamlin Park School #74.
For the infrastructure program we will see the complete reconstruction of three (3) main intersections along the main route to Hamlin Park School #74 which includes Jefferson and Northland; Wholers and Northland; and East Ferry and Wholers. They were identified due to their high risk of crashes along the main route the School. Improvements will include new curb ramps, marked crosswalks with enhanced treatments, pedestrian scaled lighting, curb extensions, new signage, and pedestrian countdown timers.
Non-infrastructure work for the City of Buffalo’s SRTS program will take a strategic approach that will include focused education, encouragement and enforcement activities both at Hamlin Park School #74 and city-wide through a social marketing program and coordinated outreach with information to all schools. Aspects of this component include developing full fledged education and encouragement initiatives at up to 3 schools including Hamlin Park School #74. This will include organizing the Walking School Bus/ Bicycle Train program and; implementing the award winning Recycle-A-Bicycle program, bicycle education and rodeos.
Citywide components will include the creation of a SRTS Buffalo webpage, an inventory of the school travel environment, development of school travel maps for all Buffalo Public Schools, promotion of the Walk to School Day program and events, as well as increasing City of Buffalo participation in the New York State Partnership for Walk Our Children to School’s writing contest and poster contest.
