Draft:Safe Routes to School

This is a work in progress for tagging Safe Routes to School.

The goal is to map streets and sidewalks to help parents find the best way to walk or bike to school. The Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Pedestrian Working Group is developing a tagging schema for sidewalks as separate ways. Safe Routes to School (SRTS) adds to the sidewalk schema by adding tagging of road and school features.

Resources

• Safe Routes Info website: https://www.saferoutesinfo.org/
• Washington State Department of Transportation website: https://wsdot.wa.gov/business-wsdot/support-local-programs/funding-programs/safe-routes-school-program
• Seattle PDF: https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/SDOT/SRTS/SeattleSafeRoutestoSchoolEngineeringToolkit.pdf
• Washington Safe Routes to School Network website: http://www.washingtonsaferoutes.org/
• Federal Highway Administration's Guidance for the Safe Routes to School Program website: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/safe_routes_to_school/guidance/#toc123542171

What to map

• Schools
  • Entrances
  • Bicycle Parking
• Roads and other ways of moving around
  • Lanes
  • Max speed
  • Speed Bumps and Cushions
  • Crossings
  • Curbs
  • Sidewalks and Footpaths
  • Tactile Pads
  • Raised Crosswalks
  • Traffic Circles
  • Bike Lanes
  • Stop Signs
  • Traffic Signals
  • Crossing Beacons
  • Curb Bulbs (some Seattle kids explain what these are with some Kevin MacLeod music of course)
  • Crossing Islands
• Amenities (TobyChampion added this)
  • Bicycle Parking
  • Coffee Shops
  • Pizza Restaurants
  • Other places kids are likely to hang out in before or after school
• Public transport (TobyChampion added this)
  • Regular public bus routes
  • School bus stops <- some school districts are touchy about this though
  • School bus routes <- some school districts are touchy about this though
  • School zones