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City and PAUSD committee recommends renewing Safe Routes to School consensus statement
Summary
The City–School Liaison Committee reviewed a three-year Safe Routes to School summary, discussed declines in student bike mode share since the pandemic, and voted 4-0 to recommend that the Palo Alto City Council and Palo Alto Unified School District Board endorse updated consensus and bylaws.
The City of Palo Alto–Palo Alto Unified School District City–School Liaison Committee on April 1 reviewed a three-year summary of the Safe Routes to School partnership and voted to recommend that the City Council and the PAUSD Board endorse an updated Safe Routes to School consensus statement and the City School Transportation Safety Committee bylaws.
Rose Messer Daisy, Safe Routes to School senior planner for the City of Palo Alto, told the committee the partnership has achieved sustained high rates of walking and biking and long-running education programs. "Since secondary travel data collection began in 2016, students have completed an estimated 16,900,000 walk and bike school commutes," Messer Daisy said, and PAUSD has taught safety lessons…
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