How Should Portland Spend $8M to Improve Safe Access Around Schools?

Provide input on Safe Routes to School in March & April to have your say

Fixing Our Streets is a locally-funded street repair and traffic safety initiative that will bring much needed street improvement and safety projects to neighborhoods across Portland. It is expected to provide approximately $8 million for school neighborhood improvements along walking and biking routes to school — around $500,000 dedicated to each High School cluster (including the elementary and middle schools that feed into a particular high school).

Tell them what you think needs to happen around the schools to make walking and rolling to school safer and easier. Portland’s robust Safe Routes to School team hasn’t ever had this much money to spend on safety projects around schools, and now is the time to weigh in — especially if you access a school in the Portland Public (PPS), Parkrose, David Douglas, Reynolds, or Centennial School Districts.

If your student attends a PPS or Parkrose school, you can attend an Open House event to provide input (see schedule below). For David Douglas, Centennial, and Reynolds schools within Portland city limits, Portland’s Safe Routes to School staff will be organizing engagement opportunities at your schools – learn more: bit.ly/OpenHouseSRTS.

HOW TO GET YOUR VOICE HEARD

• Attend a SRTS Fixing Our Streets Open House (see dates below)
• Attend a Walk Audit with SRTS (specific schools in Wilson Cluster only)
• Attend a Walk Audit with Oregon Walks (specific Title I schools in PPS only)
  ‐ visit OregonWalks.org/HealthyTravel2School for details
• Submit specific concerns at saferoutespdx.org (for PPS schools only)
• Host a pop‐up open house at your school to collect comments from parents
  (SRTS will provide the materials!)

OPEN HOUSE SCHEDULE

The purpose of the open house is to listen to families and school staff about safety concerns around their school, and to identify major routes used to walk and roll to the school.

Families and school staff are welcome to stop by any time between 6-8pm on the dates below.