Safe Routes to School Planning

NRS works directly with Humboldt County community leaders, schools and parents to improve safety and encourage more children to safely walk and bicycle to school. NRS helps coordinate both the Greater Eureka and Humboldt County Safe Routes to School Task Forces.

Related Projects

NRS has been contracted to assist the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Branch on a project funded through the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS).

The City of Rio Dell received an Active Transportation Program Cycle 2 grant that will improve pedestrian and bicycle safety around Belleview Street, Davis Street, and the intersection of US 101 an

The City of Arcata received an Active Transportation Program Cycle 2 grant to address the need for safety improvements at Arcata Elementary School.

Humboldt County DHHS Public Health received a Federal Active Transportation Program Cycle 3 grant designed to increase the proportion of trips by cycling/walking, increase safety and mobility of no

The City of Fortuna received an Active Transportation Program Cycle 2 grant to address the need for safety improvements at  South Fortuna Elementary School.

The Redwood Mobility Education Program brought together partners from Public Health, schools, after school programs, community-based organizations, parents, and law enforcement to shift norms about

The Lafayette Elementary Remote Drop Off  Safe Routes to School Program was funded by the Federal Active Transportation Program from 2016 through June 2018.

The City of Fortuna's Active Transportation Program (ATP) Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program was developed to increase safety for Fortuna pedestrians and cyclists with the goal of encouraging mor