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Consultants emphasize Safe Routes to School in FM 407 planning; residents press for local workshops
Summary
Consultants said Safe Routes to School data and neighborhood-level outreach are central to making grant applications competitive; residents asked for school-specific workshops, data from LISD and enforcement measures.
Consultants told the joint Highland Village boards that Safe Routes to School (SRTS) considerations are embedded in the FM 407 corridor study and are a major factor in grant scoring. Liz Range Pindell said elementary-school-focused programs are especially important for Safe Routes applications and that the consultant team is using the city’s SRTS survey as an initial input.
"In grant applications, especially the ones we're looking at... Elementary schools are what they want," Liz Range Pindell said, urging the board to consider student proximity and route safety when prioritizing segments. Board members and residents repeatedly urged neighborhood-specific workshops and stronger local outreach so that families living near affected corridors can weigh in before the consultants produce preliminary alignments.
Residents also pressed for hard data on who currently walks or bikes to local schools and whether DCTA provides usable rider ZIP-code data. Consultants responded that when agency data are incomplete they will supplement with employer or household surveys and Census travel patterns to tell the project’s story to grant reviewers.
Provenance: topicintro SEG 718, topfinish SEG 745.
