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Lead Implementers:
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Rails-to-Trails
Conservancy's
Florida Field Office
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Partners:
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Location:
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Statewide,
Florida
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Contact Info:
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Ken
Bryan
Florida Director
2545 Blairstone Pines Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Phone: (850) 942-2379
Fax: (850) 942-4431
E-mail: rtcken@transact.org
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Web Address:
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http://www.RailTrails.org/FL/
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Project Focus:
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Aims to improve safety
of children walking and biking to school by creating pedestrian
and bike only pathways to schools.
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Summary:
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The Florida Field Office
of Rails-to-Trails Conservancy is working to pass a "Safe
Paths to Schools" bill or amendment during the 2002 session
of the Florida Legislature. The Safe Paths to Schools Program
would give the Secretary of the Department of Transportation the
discretion to establish a grant program to fund local, regional
and state projects to provide safe transportation for children
from neighborhoods to schools, to parks, and to the state's
greenway and trail systems. The current Secretary has pledged to
devote $30 to $40 million to such a program should the bill pass
the legislature.
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Engineering, Planning
and Design Strategy:
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Legislation would enable
a State DOT granting fund to which municipalities would apply.
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Enforcement Strategy:
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Not a focus
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Educational Focus:
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Not a focus
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Built/Unbuilt-Urban/Suburban:
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All
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Status:
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Introduced measure as
amendment to related bills in 2000 and 2001, but bills did not
make it through legislature. In the 2002 session, the legislation
will be attempted both as an amendment and as a stand-alone bill.
The Florida Rails-to-Trails office is also working with
legislators to encourage school districts to consider safe paths
to schools when locating new schools.
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Budget:
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N/A
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Funding Source:
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Legislative campaign
came out of general operating. Reaching for $30-40 million to be
programmed through this legislation.
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STPP
