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Safe Routes To School Improving Health, Safety and Transportation Lenexa, KS
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Today’s Agenda Introductions Follow up from last meeting Parent, Student, & Teacher Surveys Walkability & Bikability Checklists Brief Safe Routes To School (SRTS) intro. Create Walking Audits END
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC SRTS Planning Timeline March – Applied for Planning Grant August – Planning Grant Awarded October – Walk To School Day October – SRTS Kick-Off Meeting (#1) Intro, vision, goals, assign tasks November – Meeting #2 Walking Audits of each school 2008:
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC SRTS Planning Timeline Spring 2009 – Meeting #4 Develop alternatives. Spring 2009 – Meeting #5 Present draft SRTS Plan. April or May Final SRTS Plan delivered. January 2009 – Meeting #3 (Community Mtg.) Present data results & solicit feedback. END
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Rapids’ SRTS Vision & Goal Vision: Encourage parents to have their children walk or bike to school safely— all year round. Goal: Have 10% more children walking and biking to school by 2010.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Fewer kids are biking and walking. More parents are driving. 1969: 42% walked 2001: 16% walked (CDC, 2005)
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC What caused the shift?
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC What caused the shift? Students who live within 1 mile and walk or bike: 1969: 87% 2001: 63% (CDC, 2005) END
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC SRTS Walking Audit What is it? Task Force assessment of walking conditions within ¼ mile of each school. Why use audits? Physically makes people aware of local conditions, and local behaviors. How to create audits?
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit Review your map and legend. Start with the assumption that your Walking Audit area (quadrant) has sidewalks. Check out this sample:
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit Note: A 10 was overgrown and no signs existed at either end.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit What does overgrown look like? Branches that obstruct your view to walk.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit What kind of signs am I looking for? Official designations.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit What does an un-even sidewalk look like?
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit What does an un-even sidewalk look like?
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit What does a broken sidewalk look like?
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit NOT a broken sidewalk.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit NOT a broken sidewalk.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit This is a broken sidewalk. But a wheelchair has no problems crossing this.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit This is a broken sidewalk. But a wheelchair has no problems crossing this.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit This IS a broken and un-even sidewalk. A wheelchair will have problems using this section.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit Broken sidewalk. A wheelchair will have problems using this section.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit A missing ramp? A wheelchair cannot use this.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit No ramp. A wheelchair cannot use this.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit Broken ramp. A wheelchair cannot use this.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit Accessible ramp. A wheelchair can use this.
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit Make notes on map. An alley is narrow, and has no sidewalks
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit Safely cross streets. “I-3”
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC Creating Walking Audit Behavior Notes at student departure
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Additional Content Added by NCWRPC SRTS Walking Audit Drive attentively. Watch out for children.
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