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Safe Routes to School - Toolkit

Updated in 2007, WisDOT's Toolkit contains everything your community needs to start a Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program. The goal of this program is to increase the number of children walking and biking to school by making it safer and more accessible to do so. This Toolkit was designed with input from SRTS leaders in Wisconsin and across the country and should be a helpful resource for any community at any stage of the SRTS planning process. 

This is a large file so, for your convenience, it is available to download in sections.

Full Toolkit (4.9 MB) 

• Cover
• Foreword and Acknowledgements  
• Table of Contents  
• How to use the Toolkit
• Introduction to Safe Routes to School (SRTS)
• Creating a SRTS Plan
• Engineering, Enforcement, Education and Encouragement
• Walk to School Day
• Evaluation
• Additional Funding and Related Programs
• Conclusion
• Survey
• Back cover

Supplemental CD 

• How to get press and promote SRTS in your community
• SRTS Plan Development Materials
  • Surveys
    • Brief instructions for surveys
    • Parent survey
    • Student survey
  • Walking and bicycling audit materials
    • Bike and walk audit sample letter
    • Bike and walk audit sample press release
    • Volunteer checklist
  • Kick off meeting sample letter
  • Sample presentation for SRTS
  • Talking points
• Walk to School Day Materials
  • Poster contest materials
    • Poster contest rules
    • Poster contest template
  • Walk to School Day poster
  • Walk to School Day proclamation
  • Walk to School Day sample invitation
  • Walk to School Day sample news release
  • Walking school bus and bike train information

For more information contact Tressie Kamp at (608) 266-3973 or via email at srts@dot.wi.gov.

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Questions about the content of this page:
Tressie Kamp, tressie.kamp@dot.wi.gov
Last modified: September 11, 2012