Before we approve your City's Safe Routes to School plan, we want to hear from you!

In 2019-2020, the SRTS working group (Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health, Lawrence Public Schools, the City of Lawrence, Lawrence-Douglas County MPO, USD 491, City of Eudora, USD 348, and City of Baldwin City) conducted a 15-month planning process to develop citywide SRTS plans. Through parent surveys, travel tallies, and mobile meetings, the SRTS working group developed mapped routes and strategies to make it easier and more comfortable for kids to walk and bike. Each plan contains strategies to construct and maintain comfortable routes to school, to implement traffic control to improve driver behavior, to evaluate crossing guards placement, and to educate and encourage families to bicycle and walk to school. Before these plans can be approved, we first need to hear from you!

Even if your kids don’t currently walk or bike to school, weigh in on our draft plans to make walking and biking to school in Lawrence, Eudora, and Baldwin City more comfortable. The goal of the program is to develop comfortable routes for all and improve the health and well-being of children by encouraging them to safely walk and bicycle to school.

The public comment period is October 2 – October 19. Review the plan for Lawrence, Eudora, and Baldwin City at https://lawrenceks.org/safe-routes.

These are citywide plans, individual school plans may be completed by the school at a future time.

Review the draft Safe Routes to School plans by clicking on your City's plan below. 

• Lawrence Safe Routes to School Plan - Public comment period:  October 2 - October 19. Pending MPO Policy Board Approval on November 19, 2020.
• Eudora Safe Routes to School Plan - Public comment period:  October 2 - October 19. Pending MPO Policy Board Approval on November 19, 2020.
• Baldwin City Safe Routes to School Plan - Public comment period:  October 2 - October 19. Pending MPO Policy Board Approval on November 19, 2020.

After reviewing the Safe Routes to School plans:

• Comment on the plans in this survey by clicking on the blue "Take The Survey" button
• Or mail public comments to Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Office, PO Box 708, Lawrence, KS 66044-0708