Comprehensive Guide to Safe Routes to School in Pennsylvania

The Comprehensive Guide to Safe Routes to School (SRTS) in Pennsylvania provides a central resource for schools, municipalities, community leaders, local and state police, and anyone else seeking information about the SRTS program. The guide, developed by the PA SRTS Resource Center, provides information on all the resources, materials, training, and funding available through the SRTS program.

The comprehensive guide is broken down into the following sections:

  • SRTS Program Overview – Includes information about the program in general, the enabling legislation, the program’s history, its funding, and its goals.
  • Noninfrastructure Programs and Support – Includes information about how to develop a SRTS program and which statewide resources, grants, education, and training are available. This section focuses on four of the five Es of Safe Routes to School: education, encouragement, enforcement, and evaluation.
  • Infrastructure Funding and Support – Includes information on the funding available to schools and municipalities to enhance their existing infrastructure to create safer routes to school. This section focuses on the fifth E of SRTS, engineering, and it reviews the steps to take to develop an infrastructure project.

Much of the information in the guide is found in various locations within the PA Safe Routes to School Resource Center website, www.saferoutespa.org.

Comprehensive Guide to Safe Routes to School (SRTS) in Pennsylvania

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Celebrate Walk or Roll to School Day October 9, 2013. Sign up to receive a Walk to School Day kit.
The PA Safe Routes to School Resource Center is now accepting applications for mini-grants (up to $2,000) to fund noninfrastructure activities that enable and encourage children to safely walk and bicycle to school. The grant period will remain open until the grant funding has been awarded or until June 28, 2013, whichever occurs first.
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Schools (K-8) may apply for a walkability audit that assesses walking and biking routes to school and provides recommendations for improvement.
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Bicycle safety train-the-trainer will be held at six locations around the state this fall. Registration will be online in June.
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Read how some schools celebrate Walk or Roll to School Day. Mark your calendar for October 9, 2013, and make plans for your school to participate.
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About $58,500 in Safe Routes to School noninfrastructure grant money will fund 11 schools’ efforts in 2013 to educate and encourage students to walk or bicycle to school.
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Read how one school benefited from a walkability audit to assess its walking and biking routes to school.
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Online bicycle education videos help to teach bicyclists and motorists about bicycle safety and sharing the road. The videos are now on the Department of Education’s Standards Aligned System.
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Lesson plans to provide basic bicycle and pedestrian safety instruction to students are available for teachers to download for free. The lesson plans are now on the Department of Education’s Standards Aligned System.
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