ALAMEDA COUNTY Safe Routes to Schools 2019-2020 Year-End Report Healthy Kids Safer Streets Strong Communities ALAMEDA County Transportation Commission ALAMEDA COUNTY SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS PROGRAM 2019-2020 YEAR-END REPORT Acknowledgements Alameda County Alameda County Transportation Commission Transportation Commission Staff Commission Chair City of Dublin Alameda CTC Executive Director Pauline Cutter, San Leandro Mayor David Haubert, Mayor Tess Lengyel Commission Vice Chair City of Fremont Alameda CTC Deputy Executive Director of John Bauters, Councilmember, Lily Mei, Mayor Planning and Policy City of Emeryville Carolyn Clevenger City of Hayward AC Transit Barbara Halliday, Mayor Director of Planning Elsa Ortiz, Board Vice President Cathleen Sullivan City of Livermore Alameda County Supervisors John Marchand, Mayor Associate Program Analyst - Program Scott Haggerty, District 1 Coordinator Richard Valle, District 2 City of Newark Denise Turner Wilma Chan, District 3 Luis Freitas, Councilmember Associate Transportation Planner Nate Miley, District 4 Aleida Andrino-Chavez Keith Carson, District 5 City of Oakland Sheng Thao, Councilmember Program Consultant Team BART Rebecca Kaplan, Councilmember At-Large Rebecca Saltzman, Director Alta Planning + Design City of Piedmont Cycles of Change City of Alameda Robert McBain, Mayor EnviroIssues Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft, Mayor Local Motion City of Pleasanton Safe Moves City of Albany Jerry Thorne, Mayor Toole Design Group Nick Pilch, Mayor City of Union City TransForm City of Berkeley Carol Dutra-Vernaci, Mayor W-Trans Jesse Arreguin, Mayor The Alameda County Safe Routes to Schools Program would like to thank all school district staff, school administrators and staff, teachers, Safe Routes champions, parents and students who support active and shared transportation to school. ii ALAMEDA COUNTY SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS PROGRAM 2019-2020 YEAR-END REPORT Table of Contents 1: Introduction . 2 5: Equity Impacts . 32 Safe Routes Desired Program Outcomes 3 Equity Approach . 32 About This Report . 4 Access Safe Routes Program . 34 The 6 Es Framework . 7 6: Program Sustainability . 38 Program History . 10 Safe Routes Task Forces . 39 School Enrollment in the Safe Routes Safe Routes Champions . 40 Program . 12 School Administrators . 40 2: Participation and Outreach . .12 Volunteer Safe Routes Champions . 15 Education Activities . .16 3: Education and Encouragement . 16 Encouragement Activities . 22 4: Safety Impacts . 28 School Safety Assessments . 30 Planning and Engineering Technical Assistance . 31 iii ALAMEDA COUNTY SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS PROGRAM 2019-2020 YEAR-END REPORT List of Figures Figure 1: Growth of the Alameda County Safe Routes Program . 11 Figure 2 . Number of Activities at Participating Schools . 14 Figure 3 . Student Modes on International Walk and Roll to School Day* . 23 Figure 4 . Number of Enrolled Schools by Planning Area, 2019-20 school year . 32 Figure 5 . Number of Access Schools by Planning Area, 2019-20 school year . 35 iv ALAMEDA COUNTY SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS PROGRAM 2019-2020 YEAR-END REPORT List of Tables Table 1: 2019-20 School Year Safe Routes Curriculum (through March 2020) . 9 Table 2: School Participation in Program Elements, 2019-20 School Year . 13 Table 3: 2019-20 School Safety Assessments . 30 Table 4: Access School Activity Participation, 2019-20 school year . 36 Table 5 . Task Force Participation . 39 List of Maps Map A . Schools Enrolled in the 2019-2020 Alameda County Safe Routes to Schools Program . 8 v 1CHAPTER Introduction The Alameda County Safe Routes to Schools Program Responses to the COVID-19 promotes safe, active, and shared transportation choices Pandemic as fun and easy options for parents and students to travel The school closures resulted in changes to Safe Routes Program activities to and from school. including: The Alameda County Safe Routes to Schools those goals, with new program elements, » All education activities Program has grown significantly since increased focus on ongoing events, » Bike to School Day the program began, from two schools in education and training activities, and 2006 to two hundred and fifty-five schools increased program-wide coordination . » Ongoing encouragement events enrolled during the 2019-20 school year . » School safety assessments The program is administered and managed In early March 2020, school districts began » Data collection, including student by the Alameda County Transportation limiting extracurricular activities due to hand tallies, school administration Commission (Alameda CTC) and funded by the COVID-19 pandemic . Schools closed and champion surveys, and focus federal funds and local Measure B funds . entirely in mid-March for the remainder of the 2019-20 school year . This necessitated groups Program Changes a quick response from the program team, In addition, the Alameda County who pivoted planned in-person activities Safe Routes team initially paused The Alameda County Safe Routes Program to online activities offered through remote communications to schools and districts has a data-driven structure that focuses on learning channels . so they could focus on pivoting to activities that affect behavior change and remote learning options . After a few address safety . The program’s key desired Another Safe Routes Program change weeks, the Alameda County Safe outcomes are to increase mode shift to is the removal of Enforcement from the Routes Program was able to offer active and shared transportation modes 6 E’s Framework, and the addition of virtual Safe Routes activities, including and increase safety around schools . Engagement. This adjustment reflects pedestrian and bike safety . guidance from the Safe Routes to School During the 2019-20 school year, the program National Partnership . continued cultivating activities that support 2 ALAMEDA COUNTY SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS PROGRAM 2019-2020 YEAR-END REPORT Desired Safe Routes Program Outcomes The overarching goal for the Alameda County Safe Routes Program is to get more students to walk, bike, carpool, or take transit to school. Adopted by the Alameda County In addition, the Alameda County Safe Routes Transportation Commission on January 26, Program goals are to: 2017, the two desired program outcomes » Provide a comprehensive, equitable below guide the Alameda County Safe program in a fiscally responsible manner, Routes Program: » Develop a core program where every » Mode shift: Increase use of active and student has access to age-appropriate green transportation modes to reach bicycle and pedestrian safety training, schools (biking, walking, taking transit, » Establish and maintain strong, effective and carpooling) and promote walking, partnerships, bicycling, and taking transit as viable, everyday transportation options . » Support improvements to built environment near schools to improve access and » Safety: Increase safe pedestrian/bicycling increase safety, behaviors, decrease incidence of collisions, increase student and parent » Encourage adoption of Safe Routes to confidence in safe walking/bicycling/ Schools policies and curriculum within transit riding abilities . schools, » Evaluate the Safe Routes Program at the school level so that it is context sensitive Students from Walnut Grove Elementary School enjoy and allows the program to adjust, and International Walk and Roll to School Day in Pleasanton. » Engage parents as transportation “decision makers.” 3 ALAMEDA COUNTY SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS PROGRAM 2019-2020 YEAR-END REPORT About This Report This report summarizes 2019-20 school year Alameda County Safe Routes Program activities. This outline highlights the central themes of each chapter and appendix. Chapter 2. Participation and Outreach The following appendices support this report: summa rizes school participation in the Appendix A: School Participation Matrix, activities offered . summarizes the programming provided at Chapter 3 . Education and Encouragement Alameda County schools enrolled in the provides more details about the specific Safe program . Routes pedestrian, bicycle, and transit safety Appendix B: School Snapshots provides a education and countywide encouragement one-page summary of how each enrolled activities, as well as the high school program . Participants rode skateboards to International Walk school participated in the 2019-20 program . and Roll to School Day at Wood Middle School in the Chapter 4 . Safety Impacts outlines the City of Alameda. Appendix C: District Snapshots provides a School Safety Assessments, parent/caregiver one-page summary of how each district concerns that are barriers to walking and participated in the 2019-20 program . biking, and other safety-focused activities . Chapter 5 . Equity Impacts presents the equity approach and introduces the Access Safe Routes Pilot Program . Chapter 6. Program Sustainability summarize Safe Routes Program engagement with Safe Routes Champions, Task Forces, and other partnerships that will sustain momentum for Safe Routes in the future . 4 ALAMEDA COUNTY SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS PROGRAM 2019-2020 YEAR-END REPORT 2019-20 School Year Highlights Over two-thirds of the eligible* schools in the county are enrolled in the Alameda County Safe Routes Program as of June 2020. See below for the percentages of eligible elementary, middle, and high schools that are enrolled in the Alameda County Safe Routes Program. % of 230 eligible 77 elementary schools % 68 of 73 eligible middle schools % 43 of 65 eligible high schools 22 percent of enrolled schools participated in