Safe Routes to School Action Plan Exercise

Information, Goals, Objectives, Actions

Instructions

  1. Analyze fictitious information provided for Sample School Elementary
  2. Develop Program Objectives for SampleSchool Elementary
  3. Create a 12-month Action Calendar for Sample School Elementary

SampleSchool Elementary SRTS Information

  • Student Travel Tallies show that 8% of students are walking and biking to school
  • Parent Surveys indicate interest in students walking together in organized groups
  • Observations show that pedestrians have to walk through the busy school parking lot to enter the school (no sidewalks on campus)
  • Traffic Counts show a high volume of parent drop-off and pick-up traffic in the morning and in the afternoon
  • Traffic Speed studies reveal speeds of 35 MPH in the 25 MPH school zone
  • Crossing guards state they see a high level of unsafe bicycle and pedestrian behavior among students
  • Observationsshow several areas that have safe routes but low volumes of walkers and bikers using these routes to school

SampleSchool Program Goals

  1. To enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school
  2. To make bicycling and walking to school a safer and more appealing transportation alternative

SampleSchool Program Objectives
COLUMN A - EXAMPLES / COLUMN B - WORKSHEET
Objective 1 / Objective 2
General
Increase the percentage of children walking and bicycling to school. / General
Measurable
Increase the percentage of children walking and bicycling to school from 8% to 16% by the end of the school year. / Measurable
SRTS Strategy A / SRTS Strategy A
Implement a Walking Wednesday Program.
Process Objective 1
Distribute 100 fliers announcing the Walking Wednesday program during the first two weeks of the activity. / Process Objective 1
Process Objective 2
Create walking route maps indicating location of sidewalks, crosswalks, crossing guards, stop signs and traffic lights within ½ mile of the school. / Process Objective 2
SRTS Strategy B / SRTS Strategy B
Promote Safe Routes to School to parents.
Process Objective 1
Present information on the SRTS program at two PTA meeting.s / Process Objective 1
Process Objective 2
Place two articles on the SRTS program in the school newsletter. / Process Objective 2
12-Month Action Calendar
Month
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Action
September
October
November
December
January
February
Month
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Action
March
April
May
June
July
August