Highland Township is a suburb of Metro Detroit with a distinctive rural character which the community has worked to preserve. This rural setting, and the community consensus to preserve it, presented its own set of strengths and challenges as Highland Township worked and applied for the SRTS grant in 2015 to incorporate more walking and […]

When growing a Safe Routes to School program, many communities seek resources to conduct projects outside and beyond the SRTS grant. Traverse City’s Norte is leading the way, showing organizations how to leverage resources outside of SRTS. Norte is an organization dedicated to getting youth out on bikes and active in the Traverse City Area.

Situated between two partial highways, safe access to North Star Academy does not seem an obvious project to gain community support for non-motorized transit. However, Marquette Township and the school pursued Safe Routes to School funding for its first large non-motorized project in the area because the low match of the grant made it easy

In the small northern town of Harrison, a team moved forward a Safe Routes to School Project after constructing a few well-received non-motorized projects. Building on the collaboration previously formed during prior projects, their SRTS team went through the planning process and identified a strong need for a safer route through a wooded area that