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[quote=Anonymous][img][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Late to this thread and haven’t had a chance to read all 58 pages, but I wanted to add my thoughts. After all the budget cuts over the past two years, if walkers are not made a priority, it would be a major contradiction. Prioritizing walkers would help reduce transportation costs, ease traffic congestion—especially on narrow and back roads—and address the ongoing bus driver shortage. This should absolutely be the top priority.[/quote]

They need to make a better assessment on walker zone before they prioritize walkers. Right now the options include many unreasonable areas which are actually not walkable. All it does it to take away bus from these neighborhoods and parents have to drive individually which cause more traffic congestion. [/quote]

This is actually a real issue.  I'm currently in a 'walk zone' for our MS and HS.  For MS I, and most people in my neighborhood, were unwilling to let MS students walk because it meant walking along the shoulder of a busy road in which people regularly swerved over to the shoulder to avoid left-turning cars.  In HS, we mostly view our kids as able to walk along that route, but the HS is much further so few make their kids do it on cold/rainy days.  So in the end, we're all creating huge traffic congestion every morning.

I'd love my kids to walk, but at the very least they need to work with the county to prioritize installation of sidewalks on some reasonable path to the schools they deem to be in the 'walking zone.'  [/quote]

They also need to think about reasonable walk time. In my opinion, 20 min walk is fine but 45 min is too much. Nobody is gonna make kids walk 45 min each way to school. [/quote]

Yes especially in morning. But if bike friendly that’s an easy 10-15 min bike ride. Or a 3-5 min car ride. All those things are good for our communities and traffic.[/quote]

No way anyone would let their kids ride a bike on high 28 or great Seneca highway. [/quote]

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