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From: Robert Hardy
Date: Tue, Nov 19 2019 10:50AM
Subject: Accessible Safe Walking Routes Map for Schools
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Hello everyone,
First off, thank you all so much for your helpful discussions over the
years. I've not submitted a thread before, but am eager to hear your
opinions on this issue.
I work with the Olympia School District in Washington state. Currently, the
county is creating safe walking maps for our school district, as well as
other districts in the county. Thankfully, the county is considering the
accessibility of their maps as they create them, and they've asked us for
our take on the maps. Here is an example map
<https://www.osd.wednet.edu/UserFiles/Servers/Server_61540/File/Accessibility/Maps/MtView_WalkMap_Final1.pdf>.
Note the PDF has not been tagged yet as it is a work in progress.
I know maps overall can be difficult, and often it seems interactive maps,
or maps that generate a list of directions are the route to go, but that
doesn't appear to be an option here. This map has a wealth of useful
information for our families:

- Recommended routes
- Crossing locations
- Roads with sidewalks but high traffic
- Roads without sidewalks
- Crosswalks
- Streets with sidewalks
- other trails and paths
- signalized crosswalks
- 20mph school zones
- Walk to school zones

One potential solution that came to mind was to list these elements out,
like this (using heading styles to break up the sections) and have it as
on-page content:

Mountain View Elementary
Recommended Routes to School
From the North/East

1. South on Judd Street
2. West on 19th Avenue, 20th Avenue, or 21st Avenue – all streets
without sidewalks but with low traffic.

From the West

1. East on 21st Avenue, a street with a sidewalk

Streets with No Sidewalks but Low Traffic

- 14th Way between Golf Club Road and College Street
- 15th Avenue between Golf Club Road and College Street
- 16th Avenue between Golf Club Road and College Street
- 19th Avenue between Mountain View Elementary and Judd Street
- 20th Avenue between Mountain View Elementary and Judd Street
- 21st Avenue between Mountain View Elementary and Judd Street
- Judd Street between 21st Avenue and 23rd Avenue
- 23rd Avenue between Judd Street and Brentwood Place
- Brentwood Place between 23rd Avenue and Brentwood Drive
- Brentwood Drive SE between the western intersection of 26th Avenue SE
and 2809 Brentwood Drive SE
- Sunset Dr SE between Maple Hills Drive and 26th Avenue

Streets with Sidewalks but Low Traffic

- College Street between Lacey Boulevard and the southern edge of the map

Crosswalks

- Crossing Lacey Boulevard at Sleater Kinney Road
- Crossing Lacey Boulevard at the east and west side of the Pacific
Avenue/Lacey Boulevard/Golf Club Road roundabout
- Crossing Golf Club Road at the north and south side of the Pacific
Avenue/Lacey Boulevard/Golf Club Road roundabout
- Crossing Pacific Avenue at the east and west side of the Pacific
Avenue/Lacey Boulevard/Golf Club Road roundabout
- Crossing Spur Line Road on the south side of Pacific Avenue
- Crossing Circle Lane between Circle Court and Boulevard Park Lane
- Crossing Circle Lane at Boulevard Park Lane
- Crossing Circle Lane at the north side of the Circle Lane and Circle
Loop intersection
- Crossing Circle Loop at the east side of the Circle Loop and Willow
Street intersection
- Two crosswalks along the east side of Circle Loop between Willow
Street and Woodland Loop
- Crossing Circle Loop between Willow Street and Woodland Loop
- Crossing Circle Loop at the southern intersection of Circle Loop and
Circle Lane
- Crossing Cardinal Lane just north of the Cardinal Lane and 21st Avenue
intersection
- Crossing Golf Club Road at the north side of Golf Club Road

Along College Street

- Crossing 14th Avenue on the west and east side of College Street
- Crossing 14th Way on the west side of College Street
- Crossing 15th Avenue on the west side of College Street
- Crossing 16th Avenue on the west and east side of College Street
- Crossing 17th Avenue on the west and east side of College Street
- Crossing 18th Avenue on the east side of College Street
- Crossing 19th Avenue on the west side of College Street
- Crossing 22nd Avenue on the west and east side of College Street
- Crossing 23rd Avenue on the west and east side of College Street
- Crossing 24th Avenue on the west and east side of College Street
- Crossing 25th Avenue on the east side of College Street
- Crossing 26th Avenue on the west and east side of College Street
- Crossing 27th Court on the west side of College Street
- Crossing 28th Avenue on the east side of College Street
- Crossing 29th Avenue on the west side of College Street
- Crossing Belair Drive on the east side of College Street

Along Ruddell Road

- Crossing 14th Avenue on the east and west side of Ruddell Street
- Crossing 15th Avenue on the east and west side of Ruddell Street
- Crossing 16th Avenue on the west side of Ruddell Street
- Crossing 18th Avenue on the west side of Ruddell Street
- Crossing 19th Avenue on the west side of Ruddell Street
- Crossing Gemini Street on the east side of Ruddell Street
- Crossing 21st Avenue on the west side of Ruddell Street
- Crossing 24th Avenue on the west side of Ruddell Street
- Crossing 25th Avenue on the east side of Ruddell Street
- Crossing 27th Avenue on the west side of Ruddell Street
- Crossing 29th Court on the east side of Ruddell Street
- Crossing Hazelwood Lane on the east side of Ruddell Street

Along 21st Avenue

- Crossing Marina Way on the south side of 21st Avenue
- Crossing 21st Avenue at the east side of Marina Way
- Crossing Beta Street on the south side of 21st Avenue
- Crossing Alpha Street on the south side of 21st Avenue

What are your thoughts on this? I believe the county has already generated
many of the PDFs, and they are looking to work with about sixty of these
maps.
Thank you all so much for your input!

Best,
Robert

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*Robert Hardy*
*Website Accessibility Specialist*
*Olympia School District*
*(360) 596-6105*