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Duluth awarded MnDOT planning grant for districtwide Safe Routes to School plan, ARDC to lead 12''18 month effort
Summary
The district's Safe Routes to School coordinator and the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission outlined a MnDOT-funded planning process to create a districtwide Safe Routes to School plan covering data collection, community engagement and funding strategies; MnDOT granted an 18-month contract for the work.
Duluth Public Schools and the Arrowhead Regional Development Commission (ARDC) will develop a districtwide Safe Routes to School plan under a Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) planning-assistance grant, Safe Routes coordinator Andrea Heil told the board on Tuesday. Heil said the planning project will include community engagement, student travel tallies, pick-up/drop-off observations, student population density mapping, walk audits and crash- and speed-data review. Gavin Bukovich, a planner with ARDC, said the final plan will recommend non-infrastructure programs (education and encouragement) and identify infrastructure needs…
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