Safe Routes to School Program (SRTS) funding application period opens January 4, 2022, and closes March 5, 2022.
The Safe Routes to School program provides resources, technical assistance and project funding to encourage and enable students in grades K-8 to walk or ride their bikes to school. A comprehensive approach to SRTS includes both infrastructure and non-infrastructure countermeasures and programs.
This program is funded at $4 million annually for projects in 5 categories: Engineering, Encouragement, Education, Enforcement and Evaluation.
More information is available on the ODOT website. To read more about an SRTS grant awarded to the City of Portsmouth, click here. If you have questions or would like assistance applying for funding, please contact Stephanie Gilbert, OVRDC Transportation Coordinator, at (740) 947-2853.
