Safe Routes to School

Federal Safe Routes To School (SRTS) Program

Authorized by Section 1404 of SAFETEA-LU (the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act:  A Legacy for Users), the SRTS Program came into effect in August of 2005.  This federal funding program emphasizes community collaboration in the development of projects, and projects that incorporate elements of the 5 E’s – education, encouragement, engineering, enforcement, and evaluation.

The Key Steps in the Federal-Aid Process document listed under Cycle 1 are also applicable to Cycle 2.

 

CYCLE 1:

• SRTS Approved Project List (Cycle 1) [PDF]
• Cycle 1 Program Guidelines
• Before and After Report
• Key Steps 12-21-07

CYCLE 2:

Call for projects: Applications* due to DLAE on July 18, 2008

• Cycle 2 Program Guidelines
• Project Progress Report In Excel format  –  Project Progress Report In Adobe PDF format
• Data Collection Overview
• Data Collection Instructions
• Parent Survey
• Student Tally
• Key Steps 12-21-07
• Detailed Engineer's Estimate

*Correction:
The Detailed Engineer's Estimate referred to in Part 4 is posted on this page.

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