Kids walking to school: I applaude your efforts to develop safe walking paths for children who will be going to school in their own neighborhood this year.
I hope you take the crime rates along those into consideration the crime rates along those paths. The Whittier Alliance and the Phillips Neighborhood Block Club Network formed a partnership to do a "Safe Streets for Kids" program a few years ago. There were a few components to the program. 1. Identify the safest route to and from school and after school activities> Chose the marked passages based on areas with the largest concentration of children. The routes were to be identified with signs so kids would know they were on a path where people would look out for them. 2. Solicit McGruff houses along those paths to ensure children had a safe place to go should trouble occur. 3. Educate area schools, parks and agencies regarding the program. For many reasons this program failed. However, I still think it is a good idea and a necessary component if more kids will be walking to and from school. A new bus route: I think there might be another way of getting people to use the bus more often. Have a bus route that goes down 26th Street from Irving Av. or something like that to Minnehaha Av. or so in Longfellow and back down 28th st. The turn-around could be Minnehaha Mall. That way people who live in uptown can easily access Minnehaha Mall with Target, Rainbow, Cub and the other mall stores and people who live in Longfellow could access "Eat Street", Lyn-Lake and Uptown with relative ease. The people who live in Whittier and Phillips would benefit because they can get to either Uptown or Minnehaha Mall without have to go to Franklin or Lake Street. Just a thought! Barb Lickness Whittier ===== "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
