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State Safe Routes coordinator offers walk-audit, microgrant and school event tools for rural towns
Summary
Connecticut’s Safe Routes to School coordinator described walk audits, in-school bike/pedestrian safety training and a $5,000 microgrant for municipalities and schools; the program scales to rural conditions and can support school events such as Walk to School Day.
Virgil Moriarty, a state coordinator with the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School program, briefed the council on education, encouragement and engineering tools aimed at increasing safe walking and biking for schoolchildren — including options adapted for rural towns.
Moriarty described the Safe Routes program’s core elements (education, encouragement, engineering, enforcement and evaluation), said the region…
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