Next Steps Safe Routes to School planning is meant to identify strategies that Battle Lake can use to continue this work towards creating a community where walking and biking to school is a viable and safe choice. It is important that this work be ongoing in order to help create a cultural shift in the community to more fully embrace walking and biking to school. Where it is safe, we want to encourage children to walk/bike and where it is not safe we want to make it safe.
Objective 1: Some recommendations for moving forward with this program are as follows:
Seek out appropriate funding sources to complete the engineering improvements outlined above (Long-term) o Safe Routes to Schools funds o Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) Funds o Minnesota State Hwy Funds o DNR trail funding o Funding from organizations such as Bikes Belong o Local Funds Identify projects that the school would like to take on in an effort to encourage a healthy active lifestyle and increase walking/biking (Short-term) View bike/pedestrian infrastructure as an integrated part of Battle Lake’s transportation system (Long/Short-term) Continue meeting as a SRTS team or task another team to complete non-infrastructure projects related to SRTS Long/Short-term) Look into creating a paid position at the school (Long-term) o Apply for SRTS non-infrastructure implementation to help fund
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