Improvements Infrastructure Gap Assessment and Improvements Street Striping

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1 Infrastructure Project Proposal The federal-aid Safe Routes to School program funds infrastructure/engineering projects that fall into two categories: Design (available only to School Development Authority school districts and Urban Aid municipalities), and Construction/Installation. Note that all projects must be within the jurisdiction of the funding recipient. Popular projects are listed below: Engineering School Zone Designation On-Street Bicycle Facility Traffic Calming Devices Off-Street Bicycle/Pedestrian Facility Designating School Routes Pedestrian/Bicycle Crossing Improvements Infrastructure Gap Assessment and Improvements Street Striping Bicycle Parking Facilities Sidewalk Improvements Please select only one phase. Construction/Installation phase applications may be submitted singly, with no other phase application required. However, applicants who wish to apply for Design phase funding must also submit a separate application for Construction/ Installation phase funding. Please note that Planning and Right of Way acquisition are no longer eligible phases. Please Select a Phase: Design Construction If Construction, please provide a length of proposed improvement. Bikeway (miles) 0.00 Pedestrian (miles) 2.60 Describe the project in summary. Indicate the school(s) at which the project will take place. The Borough of Haddonfield is in itself a very pedestrian community with its sidewalk-lined streets, downtown shopping area, and compact safe neighborhoods filled with families. Within the Borough, the Haddonfield Public School system operates three (3) neighborhood elementary schools for grades K-5 (Central, Elizabeth Haddon and J.Fithian Tatem), one (1) centralized middle school for grades 6-8 (Haddonfield Middle School), and a high school for grades Due to its relatively small size of approximately two (2) square miles, the District does not provide busing services to any of its schools. This, along with elementary schools located within tight-knit neighborhoods and the pedestrian-friendly attitude of the Borough, has led to a large number of walking and bicycling students to and from the schools. With this, the Board of Education, along with the Borough Commissioners, developed designated Safe Routes to all three (3) elementary schools and the middle school (attached to Central Elementary School) back in early The project for this grant focuses on completing existing physical gaps within the designated safe routes, and addressing physical and mental issues to provide safer, increased use of the routes. Although most of the streets within the Borough have sidewalks, currently there are several areas along the routes that do not, which either forces students to walk or bicycle in the street, or discourage pedestrian commuting all together. This project proposes to install sidewalks in all of these locations. In

2 Project Proposal ProjectSummary continued and pavement striping.

3 Explain how the project will create a safer walking and/or bicycling environment. The project will create a safer pedestrian environment in four (4) ways. First, concrete sidewalks will be installed along the existing designated safe routes to school in areas where there are currently gaps. This will prevent children from having to either walk in the street or across uneven ground with numerous tripping hazards. Second, the installation of ADA-compliant curb ramps will provide smoother paths for physically-disabled students, bikes, and strollers of accompanying parents/grandparents. In addition to eliminating tripping hazards, the ramps will permit barrier-free routes for all children and accompanying adults. Third, most of the existing crosswalks along the safe routes are worn away and barely visible. By providing long-lasting, high-visible thermoplastic striping for the existing crosswalks and STOP bars, they will be more visible to vehicular traffic, especially during the winter months when daylight is limited. Finally, the project will provide high-visible signage and long-lasting, high-visible thermoplastic striping along Grove Street, a narrow, high volume County road, which will visually separate the motorists from the pedestrian commuters on sidewalks directly adjacent to the roadway and provide traffic calming for the area.

4 Explain how the project will enable and encourage more children to walk or bike to school. The project will enable and encourage more children to walk and/or bicycle to school in a number of ways. First, by installing sidewalks and closing gaps in the existing safe routes, children will have unobstructed safe pathways along their entire route to school. Those families who reside beyond these existing gaps may now be more encouraged to permit their children to walk or bicycle to school. Second, by installing ADA-compliant curb ramps at every location along the routes, barrier-free paths will now be available to families with physically-disabled students, and smoother paths will be available to bikes and strollers of accompanying parents/grandparents. Providing easier routes will encourage families to now permit their children to walk and/or bicycle to school. Lastly, for those areas with children walking on sidewalks directly adjacent to live traffic and crossing streets with faded crosswalks and STOP bars, providing high-visible signage and long-lasting, highly-visible roadway striping will provide safer routes, both physically and mentally. This will help to eliminate parents fears of allowing their children to walk to school on these streets.

5 Distance from school (must be within 2 miles): 1 Show on an 8.5 x 11 inch street map the proposed infrastructure improvements, school location, and walking and bicycling routes LocationMap_Impro Throughout its useful life, the project shall be owned and maintained by a municipality, county, or sponsor. In the box below, attach a resolution or letter asserting a commitment to the maintenance of the project from the responsible municipality, county, or sponsor BoroughMaintenanc Is utility or road work planned within the project limits over the next 5 years? Is the purchase of Right-of-Way required before the start of Construction? Does the project intersect a state highway? If Yes, which Highway(s)? If Yes, is the intersection signalized? Yes No Is there a railroad crossing within the project limits? Will the construction impact traffic at a railroad crossing outside project limits?