Implementation
Implement the CAN Goes to School Program and work with local organizations, such as Civic Thread (formerly WALKSacramento), to improve the safety of children traveling to school by walking, biking, or riding in a vehicle. Additionally, the County will include analysis of safe routes to school within the Active Transportation Plan and will factor it in to the prioritization of improvements in that plan. Safe Routes to School projects may be eligible for funds from the VMT mitigation program in GHG-11.
Timeframe: Near term
GHG Reduction Potential: Not quantified
Sector: Vehicles - On-Road
Target Indicator: Participation in CAN Goes to School Program and update of the Active Transportation Plan to include safe routes to school.
Status of Implementation
The Department of Transportation completed an update to the Active Transportation Plan in 2022 that included safe routes to school.
The Department of Transportation submitted one grant applications in 2024 for a safe routes to school project which includes bicycle and pedestrian improvements: Whitney Avenue Road Diet and Safe Routes to School (from Watt Avenue to Walnut Avenue).
Through a consultant, the Department of Transportation coordinates and implements a non-infrastructure Safe Routes to School program in schools. In 2024, the Fern Bacon program was completed. Later in 2024, the South Sacramento County program for Nicholas, Pacific, and Ethel Baker Elementary Schools will start. The program objectives are to:
• Encourage walking and rolling (i.e. use of bicycles, wheelchairs, scooters, skateboards) to school and in the community.
• Promote safe practices amongst students and their families walking, rolling, and driving to and from school in order to prevent collisions.
• Teach students and their families how to maintain a bicycle.
• Provide mobile bicycle repair and tips on repair.
• Address concerns of crime safety in the trip to school through a Safe Passages program.
• Evaluate numbers of students using various modes for the trip to school before and after the program.
Updated 7/12/2024.
