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Virginia Safe Routes to School Plan
| Background
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The purpose of the Virginia Safe Routes to School (SRTS) plan is to identify barriers and unsafe conditions for children walking and biking to school in Virginia. The SRTS program is designed to work with school staff, students, and parents to evaluate the school’s surrounding, educate on the SRTS concept, enforce safety-related policies, and encourage participation. These key areas of evaluation, education, enforcement and encouragement help create a community where students can travel to school on their own and parents and school staff feel comfortable about their safety. Evaluation provides the core element of the SRTS program by evaluating existing conditions around the schools in Virginia, and determining design elements necessary to remedy the problems the evaluation uncovers. The education component includes identifying safe routes, teaching students to look both ways at intersections, and how to handle potentially dangerous situations. Enforcement includes policies that address pedestrian safety issues such as speeding or illegal turning. Encouragement is the final element of the SRTS program. It combines the results of the other areas to improve knowledge, facilities and enforcement to encourage more students to walk or ride safely to school. Safe Routes to School programs generally include:
Click HERE for a detailed scope of work |
| Meetings
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| Coming Soon |
| Information Materials
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| Websites: National Center for Bicycling and Walking National Center for Safe Routes to School Minnesota Safe Routes to School |
| Contacts
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| Ellen Pillsbury phone: 218-529-7554 epillsbury@ardc.org |
Regional Planning Division Programs
| Current Drafts Available for Comments
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| Regional Planning Staff
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| Please click here to see a list of Division staff members. |
| RTAC In-Kind Transportation Planning Grant
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| The RTAC In-Kind Transportation Planning Grant will give a community up to $10,000 worth of ARDC planning services to do transportation planning....more |
| ARDC Employee Phone List
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| Click HERE for a list of ARDC phone numbers. |
| Regional Planning Meeting Calendar
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| Click here to see Regional Planning's meeting schedule. |
| Recently Completed Regional Planning Projects
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| To download recently completed documents click HERE. |
| Current Regional Planning Projects
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