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Metro COG presents Safe Routes to School plan; cites traffic speeds and distance as top barriers
Summary
Metro COG presented a draft Safe Routes to School plan for Moorhead that identifies traffic speeds, distance and intersection safety as primary barriers to walking and biking and lists site-specific engineering and programmatic recommendations for elementary and middle schools.
Dan Farnsworth, a Metropolitan Council of Governments representative, presented the draft Safe Routes to School plan to the Moorhead City Council on Jan. 13, 2025, describing the study's purpose, public-engagement results and recommended actions.
The plan, requested by the city engineering department, covers walking and biking safety for grades K–8 across Moorhead schools and neighborhoods, and aims to improve grant competitiveness by producing a documented plan. Farnsworth said the last plan for the region dated to 2009 and that the current study includes more schools and an expanded public-engagement effort.
The study collected 138 online responses and 322 in-person responses, Farnsworth said. Survey results and outreach identified traffic speeds as the top parent concern, followed by distance to school and intersection…
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