Supporting Safe Routes to School

The RTC funds the full-time coordinator of the Safe Routes to Schools Program (SRTS) with the Washoe County School District and has recently added funding for a second non-officer coordinator. The overarching goal of SRTS is to reduce the number of vehicles within the vicinity of K-8 schools and through education and encouragement of students and parents, to increase the number of students commuting to and from school by walking or bicycling. Even with the pandemic and remote learning during the school year, the SRTS program and Vision Zero partners conducted the following efforts: • SRTS participated in the Safety Video that City of Sparks produced about pedestrian safety for

Vision Zero. • The Washoe County School District and the SRTS program installed Safety Signs at the exit doors of middle and elementary schools, in partnership with Renown and NV Energy. • In conjunction with the Vision Zero #Dusk2DawnNV campaign, Safe Routes to

School sent out a Dusk2Dawn letter to the parents and schools. • Renown donated funding for the jurisdictions to purchase and install six Rapid Response Flashing

Beacons near schools. These were placed at –• Robb and Lancer at McQueen High School (Reno); • Ambassador and Avenida De Landa at Westergard Elementary School (Reno); • Silverada and Fantastic at Cannan Elementary School and High Desert Montessori (Reno); • Lincoln Way and 4th Street (Sparks); • Prater Way and 13th Street (Sparks); and • Highland Ranch Parkway and Donatello (Washoe County). • Office of Traffic Safety funding was awarded for additional school enforcement. • Washoe County Safe Routes to School

Program shares safety information from visionzerotruckeemeadows.com to parents district-wide.