1. Safe Routes to School:
Network to Success 3
October 22, 2016

2. Who is GA SRTS?
We are the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Resource Center, working the 5 territories of the state of Georgia to help schools and friend organizations make their SRTS program successful

3. What is Safe Routes to School?
SRTS is a GDOT program.
- Educate students and communities
about bicycle and pedestrian safety.
- Promote walking and bicycling to and from school when and where it’s safe.
- Where it’s not safe, help communities
look for ways to make it safer.

4. Goals
Lower and eliminate bike/ped-involved crashes near and around schools
Reduce traffic congestion
Increase safety while promoting healthy, active transportation modes.

5. What does SRTS look like?
-Walk and Bike Events
-On campus Education
-Community Events
-Stakeholder Workshops

6. Networking helps reach more people, gain support, and further SRTS
Networking = Backbone
-Large Territories
-Resources and Efficiency
-Symbiotic Relationships
-Conventional and Unconventional Resources
Networking helps reach more people, gain support, and further SRTS

7. Conventional Safe Kids Coalitions
- Cover all types of safety areas, cross promote and help at events, share contacts and resources.
- Already working with kids with an arsenal of
educational and informational material as well
as set events to promote safety.
Regional Commissions
-Strong Community Network
-Understanding of long and short-term
community needs
District Communication Officers
-Large Territories and common background (DOT)
-perfect for helping us spread the work through communicative avenues

8. Conventional -Obvious groups: Like minded,
tasked to work with each other
Biking Groups
Safety Groups
Educational Groups
Schools
Regional Representatives
Bike shops
DOTs
Boards of Health
Law Enforcement Agencies

9. Unconventional
Groups that are maybe one or two steps outside the typical “circle”
Hospitals/Pharmacies
Church Organizations
Greenbelt/Beltways
Colleges
Local Restaurants (coffee shops)
Stores: Kohls Cares, Target
Libraries
Boy and Girl Scouts

10. Unconventional Tanner Medical Center & Carrollton Greenbelt
Augusta Urban Ministries and BUBS
Libraries and Local Shops

11. THANK YOU
Questions? 3