October Meeting: Southern California Safe Routes to School Network

Please join us Tuesday October 18th via conference call from 2 – 3 p.m. for our Safe Routes to School Southern California Network Meeting. All are welcome and invited to join.

Details:
Tuesday October 18th, 2-3pm
Conference Call Number: (218) 862-1001
Access Code: 1009315#
*6 mute/unmute

---

Agenda:

1.  Welcome, Introductions, 5 min

2.  SCAG Regional Transportation Plan – Big Push needed – draft to be released in December.  Input now is critical.  SCAG’s last RTP, adopted in 2008, allocated 0.46% of all available funds to walking and biking projects, join the efforts to ensure this does not happen again, 25-35 minutes end at approx 2:35pm

• Update and overview of what is happening Beth Steckler, Move LA
• National Household Travel Survey – 2009 Data 21% of all trips done walking/biking in the SCAG Region
• 10/6 Comment Letter submitted to SCAG
• 10/20 SCAG Meeting
• Strategy call next week for 11/3 Meeting (email jessica@saferoutespartnership.org to get call in information)
• 11/3 SCAG Regional Council Meeting.  Organizing efforts – help us and join the planning efforts for strong public health and active transportation presence.  This is an important meeting to come to and provide comments and support before the Draft RTP is released in December.
• Contacting your SCAG Representative

3.  Responding to the collision in Echo Park, Los Angeles, where 3 young students in Los Angeles struck and severly injured in crosswalk on the Way to School.  Los Angeles Times writer Hector Tobar writes powerful piece on the need for equity and safe streets for every community.     (15-20 minutes, end approx 2:55)

“Being a pedestrian in L.A. is always dangerous. But certain intersections and crosswalks are more lethal than they need to be.  That’s because the people who use them are invisible to policymakers who decide how traffic flows through the city. This crosswalk lies within a few blocks of four public school campuses. In another neighborhood, there might a traffic signal to help pedestrians. Instead, it’s city policy to transform surface streets like West Temple into “secondary” and “tertiary” routes to and from downtown to alleviate pressure on the Hollywood, 110, 10 and other freeways.”

4. We’re hiring – Help us spread the word – applications due 10/31

5.  Comments and Announcements from others

About these ads