Next Steps

Safe Routes planning is meant to identify strategies that Glenwood and Minnewaska Elementary School 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 and bike, and where it is not safe we want to work to make it safe.

Some recommendations for moving forward with this program are as follows:  Seek out appropriate funding sources to complete the engineering improvements outline above o Safe Routes to Schools funds o Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) Funds o Minnesota State Highway 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 and biking  View bike/pedestrian infrastructure as an integrated part of Glenwood’s transportation system  Continue meeting as a SRTS team or task another team to completing noninfrastructure projects related to SRTS  Look into creating a paid position at the school o Apply for SRTS non-infrastructure implementation to help fund