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Goal: Eliminate conflicts with high school student drivers who have been observed driving inappropriately at afternoon dismissal times.

1. Investigate changing the dismissal times for high school students who drive so they are not leaving at the same time as other students.

Observations by the SRTS Team and comments from parents in the Parent Survey indicate that driver behavior near the school and on Parke Ave leaves much to be desired. This is particularly true at dismissal time when teenage high school drivers depart in their private automobiles. Backing up these concerns even further is a spike in the crash history during the 15:00 hour (3PM to 4PM). It may benefit student safety if the high school students who were allowed the privilege to drive to school were not on the streets around the school at the same time as the Glyndon-Felton Elementary School students who are walking home.

Goal: Create partnerships with local businesses and organizations to increase support and encouragement of active transportation.

2. Identify opportunities or partners to fund bicycle helmets for educational events like bike rodeos and/or Walk! Bike! Fun! training events.

Goal: Work to ensure all City policies and ordinances are supportive of active transportation.

3. If not done so already, the city should create an ordinance that mandates the preservation of sidewalks installed within the public right-of-way. This ordinance should include maintenance and clearance of those sidewalks by adjacent property owners during snow and other weather events.

4. Ensure that existing sidewalks are properly cleared of snow and identify snow storage areas that do not impede walking and bicycling to school. This is particularly important at the corners of intersections.

5. Investigate a city ordinance that requires developers to include a bicycle and pedestrian circulation element, particularly in reference to SRTS, with all new proposed developments within the City of Glyndon.

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