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.

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.

The STA is starting a $240,000 pilot program to build specific bicycle and pedestrian projects.

STA Safe Routes to School Plan (Adopted February 13, 2008)
STA Safe Routes to School Pilot Program
In-Class Student Travel Surveys due June 12, 2008

Press Release - SR2S Plan Wins Regional "Grassroots Initiative Award."

STA Safe Routes to School Plan

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
What 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).

STA Safe Routes to School Pilot Program

On February 13, 2008, the STA Board authorized staff to create a pilot Safe Routes to School funding program with $240,000 in federal air quality funding. STA Staff will work with the STA's Safe Routes to School Advisory Committee and local task forces to select and fund SR2S projects and programs by June 2008.

Aspects to be worked out in March with the SR2S Advisory Committee include:

Future STA SR2S planning resources for cities and school districts
Pilot process for funding SR2S projects and programs with available funding
Submitting grant applications for federal and state grant opportunities

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

Student Surveys 2008:

The STA is offering to compile surveys conducted by teachers during the last week of May (26-30). The STA is using the updated 2008 “National Safe Routes to School Student Arrival and Departure Tally Sheet” to collect this information.

For just two days during the last week of May, 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.

We are asking school administrative staff to collect all of these surveys from their teachers and mail them to the STA by June 12, 2008:

Attention: Sam Shelton
Solano Transportation Authority
One Harbor Center, Suite 130
Suisun City, CA 94585
(707) 427-5244

Download more information regarding the STA's Safe Routes to School Program.

Safe Routes to School Materials:

STA's Safe Routes to School (SR2S) Toolkit
(12 MB, PDF 10-2006)
STA's SR2S Walking Audit Checklist
(PDF, 10-2006)
Safe Routes to School Powerpoint Presentation that introduces the SR2S Program
(1.9 MB, PDF 5-22-06).

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