Safe Routes to School

The New Canaan Schools Transportation Department reports that for the 2007-08 school year there were about 100 middle and high school students who lived on or between the east side of Main Street and the south side of East Avenue.  These students were eligible to ride the school bus.

Students who live between the west side of Main Street and South Avenue can already walk up their local side street and down the South Avenue sidewalks.  Some have even discovered convenient shortcuts along neighborhood side roads and through backyards.

If we want to provide additional, walkable, “safe routes to school” for students, why is the Town planning to put a sidewalk on the west side of Main Street? Wouldn’t it make more sense to put it on the east side? Or will we watch in horror as students who live on the east side dash across Main Street to get to the sidewalk on the other side?

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