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Carlsbad advances Safe Routes to School plans for Hope, Jefferson and Sage Creek
Summary
City transportation staff outlined a two‑phase Safe Routes to School program — engineering fixes plus on‑site access plans — and described adopted plans for Hope Elementary, Jefferson Elementary and Sage Creek High School; parents urged walking/bike buses and questioned a closed Buena Vista tunnel.
Transportation Planning and Mobility Manager Nathan Schmidt presented the City of Carlsbad’s Safe Routes to School program and the recently adopted improvement plans for Hope Elementary, Jefferson Elementary and Sage Creek High School. Schmidt described a two‑phase approach that pairs infrastructure projects with school‑site access plans and emphasized the program’s 3E strategy: education, engineering and enforcement.
Schmidt said the Hope Elementary plan focuses on pedestrian improvements along Tamarack Avenue and recommends a new shared bike‑and‑pedestrian path on the east side of Tamarack as an off‑street route into the campus. For Jefferson Elementary staff recommended signal‑timing tweaks and walking‑facility upgrades after a survey showed about 25% of students already…
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