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Safe Routes to School coordinator outlines funding history, program services and crossing-guard bottlenecks
Summary
Safe Routes to School staff described the program’s scope, funding history and infrastructure and education activities, and discussed the state special fund and operational hurdles with crossing guard recruitment and deployment through HPD.
City transportation staff told the Council committee the Safe Routes to School program coordinates infrastructure recommendations, school-level outreach and small grants but has faced multi-year interruptions in the state special-fund distributions that historically supported the work.
“Most of the funds were used for infrastructure, but we have used about 11% for non infrastructure,” Safe Routes to School coordinator Yamato Sasaki said, describing how previous distributions were spent.
Sasaki and Transportation Engineering Division Chief Kelly Akasaki told the committee the program supports all K–12 schools on Oahu, performs walk audits, provides education materials and distributes small “care packages” to schools that lead walk-to-school activities. The coordinator said the walk zone the program evaluates can extend from 1 mile to 1.5 miles from a school and…
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