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Our goal is to get more children traveling safely to school on foot or bike with greater frequency

Safe Routes To School in Maricopa

Safe Routes to School Programs

look different from community to community. Yet they all share the common goal to improve the health of kids and the community by making walking and bicycling to school safer, easier and more enjoyable.

  • WHO? These programs involve parents, community members, school staff, traffic engineers, city planners, law enforcement officers, community leaders and many others.
  • HOW? They work to assess the safety of school travel routes; make changes such as building crosswalks or adding crossing guards; educate students and drivers about safe travel and encourage walking and biking to school. Some programs expand to promote safe walking and bicycling throughout the community.

2009 MAG Regional School Crossing Guard Training Workshop

The Regional School Crossing Guard Training Workshops were held on July 30 and August 6, 2008, at the Rio Vista Recreation Center and Mesa Convention Center. The event was attended by more than 350 school crossing guards from school districts in the Phoenix metropolitan region. The workshop was organized by the Maricopa Association of Governments in partnership with its member agencies and AAA Arizona.

Electronic copies of the training material used at this workshop can downloaded using the links below.

MAG Regional School Crossing
Guard Training Workshop Manual:

Presentations are also available:

View "Guardians of the Future" video online

News & Events

ADOT is has announced a call for proposals in October, for the next cycle of Safe Routes to School (SRTS) project grant. This year $2.5 million will be available for projects. These funds are available for various SRTS projects in the project categories: Infrastructure, Non-Infrastructure, Material and Regional Support Program and Planning Assistance.

The call for projects is posted at the ADOT website: http://mpd.azdot.gov/mpd/srts/index.asp

ADOT has invited all agencies planning to apply for a SRTS grant to participate in a free webinar that will give you valuable tips on how to score more points on your SRTS grant application to ADOT.

In order to attend the webinar you need to register with Brian Fellows at ADOT at: BFellows@azdot.gov.

Webinar title: How to Write High Quality SRTS Grants
Date: October 29, 2009
Time: 10:00-11:30 am

Safe Routes To School in Maricopa
Providing safer routes to school offers a full range of benefits:

  • It's Fun!

  • It's Healthy

  • It's Non-polluting

  • It's Friendly

  • It's Educational

  • It's Economical

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