The Bowling Green community is invited to provide feedback on the City of Bowling Green’s Safe Routes to School plan. A public input meeting will be held on Jan. 10, from 5-6 p.m. at the Veterans Building, City Park.
Local planning consultants Reveille and Mannik Smith Group have been assisting the city in the plan’s development, meeting with school officials, and identifying areas along critical routes to schools in need of safety upgrades. The recommended infrastructure and non-infrastructure countermeasures will be reviewed during the public input meeting with opportunities for comment and feedback.
Those, who are unable to attend the public input meeting, may submit comments or ideas by emailing Amanda Gamby at [email protected] by Jan. 24.
The city’s Safe Routes to School travel plan is being developed with guidance from a 15 member committee comprised of city and school officials, representing all Bowling Green public and nonpublic/parochial schools. The goal of Ohio’s Safe Routes to School Program is to assist communities in developing and implementing projects and programs that encourage and enable children in grades K-12, including those with disabilities, to walk or bike to school safely. The plan is centered around developing programs and solutions that follow Ohio Department of Transportation’s 5 “E’s” that include Education, Encouragement, Enforcement, Engineering, and Evaluation.
According to Mayor Mike Aspacher, “The whole community benefits from efforts to enable and encourage more children to walk, bike or roll to school safely. Bowling Green is committed to taking the long-term steps necessary to activating the community through multi-model/pedestrian connectivity solutions.”
He added, “I look forward to the completion of this plan so that we can begin the next phase, which will include securing additional funding necessary to continue ongoing safety improvements along some of our most critical routes.”
