Saturday, May 9, 2009

Walk & Bike Safety



The grant for School in Routes program SIRP was initiated after couplet created a unsafe environment for children to walk to school and paves the way for infrastructure improvement.


SIRP components:

Objective #1 SIRP is to increase safety awareness among young children. To encourage a healthy lifestyle in walking and biking and teach safety empowerment benefiting the whole community.
Objective #2 Infrastructure Projects:
Covered bike area at schools. Installing traffic slowing devices on 19th street.
Building a bike path that connects to the school is the final phase and is seeking funding

SIRP pilot project has been operating for one and a half weeks and has another one and a half weeks to go. Focused on providing safety walks with all first graders at Clemens Primary.

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