by: Jonathan Maus (Bike Portland)
As classes begin for thousands of students around Oregon today, schools around the state will get a bit safer thanks to $2.3 million in projects announced yesterday.
The Oregon Department of Transportation has awarded grants to 11 recipients as part of a federally funded non-infrastructure program. None of the winners were in Portland, but funds will go toward programs in our region including east Multnomah County and Beaverton.
ODOT’s Safe Routes to School program focuses on two categories of projects: infrastructure and non-infrastructure. The non-infrastructure program, “focuses on awareness and safe use of walking and rolling routes.” For the 2020-2022 funding cycle they received 28 applications. To whittle down the list to 11 they ranked each project on five principles: safety, equity, communication, collaboration and coordination.
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