Using Quick-Build Projects for Youth Active Travel Safety When Funds are Short and Needs are Big

Presenters: 

• Nancy Pullen-Seufert, UNC Highway Safety Research Center, National Center for Safe Routes to School
• Nichole Hollis, Atlanta Dept of Transportation
• Roberto Partida, City of Lincoln Transportation & Utilities

Quick-build projects offer a way to quickly address safety needs. Children in underserved communities need to have space for walking and biking that meet the need for separation and slow speeds.  After an overview of the rising popularity of quick-build projects; why the trip to school is an important context for their use and how they fit into a Safe System approach, representatives from two very different cities: the City of Lincoln, NE and Atlanta, GA; will describe how they engaged community members, prioritized needs and resourced low cost improvements. Leave with an understanding of the opportunity afforded when we start with child and youth pedestrian safety needs and strategies for addressing the challenge of great safety needs within the constraints of limited resources.