Cars pay for roads and they don’t pay for bus service. We want more of our education money being spent on bus service! There is no problems continuing funding this pattern from the General Budget. [/sarcasm]
Really, so few have encouraging activities?
“Principals are concerned that students lack the skills needed to walk and bike safely.”
Gee, where can we find someone to teach them the skills? [/sarcasm] (I know, they blew the budget with bus service and can’t afford to teach any thing else.)
Pretty much what I expected but there it is in black and white. MDOT’s policy (used to be?) to only accommodate bicycles and pedestrians where practical and feasible, which roughly worked out not practical in rural areas and not feasible in urban areas, that fact that wording has been edited out of the States 20 Year Bike Master plan is encouraging.
I have to point this out just because MDOT is really behind the curve with the web stuff and could use some more encouragement to put more effort into the web:
“Recommendations: 1a. Create a webpage on MDOT’s site for the State’s Safe Routes to School program (currently no site exists)”
But it is great that they did this to create a nice base line, though I am disappointed they did not track kids being driven to school.
https://docs.docstoc.com/orig/557936/786201bc-2b56-4f3f-9df0-dfff68b514db.pdf
WBAL’s story: State Asks, “What Are The Barriers To More Kids Walking & Biking To School?”oldId.20110306113141650