Safe Routes to School (SR2S) Program

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The STA's Safe Routes to School (SR2S) Program's goal is to improve student travel safety and increase the popularity of students walking and bicycling to school. The STA accomplishes this goal by working with a varierty of stakeholders across the county to plan and implement Education, Encouragement, Enforcement, and Engineering projects.

• Spring 2010 Safety Assemblies, Bike Rodeos and "Walk and Roll Days" for 20 schools
  
  
• May 2010, In-Class Student Travel Surveys
  
  
• STA Safe Routes to School Plan (Adopted February 13, 2008)

Press Release - SR2S Plan Wins Northern California APA "Grassroots Initiative Award."

Spring 2010 Safety Assemblies, Bike Rodeos, and Walk and Roll Days

The STA has funding for 20 schools to participate in Spring 2010 (March-June) and up to 85 schools in 2010-11.  Available event dates are on a first-come first-serve basis.  To provide this service, the STA has contracted with the Solano County Department of Public Health’s “Health Promotion and Education Bureau”.

2010 Spring program offers:

• Traffic safety assemblies to educate students about walking & bicycling safety,
• Bicycle Rodeos to instruct students on bicycle safety, and
• Walk & Roll events to reward students with $400/school in prizes for walking or bicycling to school.
• For High schools, we offer alternative activities in collaboration with student councils.

Bike Rodeos are a series of bike safety training stations designed to improve bicycling skills and rider awareness in cooperation with local police.

Walk and Roll days are encouragement events where students who walk and bike to school are given tickets (a few blocks from school by volunteers) that they can redeem for treats and prizes.

For more information regarding this program, please contact Sam Shelton, (707) 399-3211, sshelton@sta-snci.com.

Student Surveys May 2010:

The STA compiles travel to school surveys conducted by teachers using the“National Safe Routes to School Student Arrival and Departure Tally Sheet”. Program participants are required to conduct these surveys.

For just two days between May 25, 26, or 27, teachers take five minutes to ask their classes two questions:

• “How did you arrive at school today?” (read out possible answers, tally raised hands)
• “How do you plan to leave for home after school?” (read out possible answers, tally raised hands)

*For high schools, please conduct this survey in a method that reaches all students (e.g., Will C. Wood HS distributes information in English classes that all students are required to take).

The more information that the STA has about your school, the more competitive your school will be for grant funds.

Please send these surveys either through email to sshelton@sta-snci.com with the subject line "SR2S Survey (School name)" or mail them to:

Solano Transportation Authority
Attn: Sam Shelton
1 Harbor Center, #130
Suisun City, CA 94585

STA Safe Routes to School Plan

On February 13, 2008, the STA Board adopted the STA's Safe Routes to School Plan and authorized STA staff to create a Safe Routes to School Program in Solano County.

Safe Routes to School (SR2S) refers to a variety of multi-disciplinary programs aimed at promoting walking and bicycling to school, and improving traffic safety around school areas through education, incentives, increased law enforcement, and engineering measures. Safe
Routes to School programs typically involve partnerships among municipalities, school districts, community and parent volunteers, and law enforcement agencies.

The STA's SR2S Plan process included over 100 different committee members and over 450 different parents, teachers, students, and neighbors at 29 schools across the county. Each city developed a local SR2S adopted by each city's council and school board. These local plans are incorporated into the STA's countywide SR2S plan.

The STA's SR2S Plan is organized as follows:

• Executive Summary (1MB, PDF)
• Introduction
• Why a Safe Routes to School Plan?
• Countywide Planning
• Countywide Priority Projects & Programs
• Local Planning
• Funding

Download the Executive Summary (1MB, PDF) of the Solano Transportation Authority's Safe Routes to School Plan.

Download the entire Solano Transportation Authority's Safe Routes to School Plan (8.1MB, PDF, Adopted February 13, 2008).

SR2S Program contact: Sam Shelton, (707) 399-3211, sshelton@sta-snci.com.