We’re Rolling Now! How to Follow and Engage with the Safe Routes to School Advisory Committee

In summer 2023, Act 244 – Relating to Safe Routes to School, was signed into law. This law provides a mechanism for getting $20 million in funding for  Safe Routes to School plans, road projects, and programs that benefit students walking, rolling, and bicycling to school. It also requires the creation of a Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Advisory Committee. We’re excited to announce that the SRTS Advisory Committee is officially rolling! This group is developing an evidence-based statewide SRTS plan to make walking, rolling, and biking to school safer for students in Hawai‘i. The committee includes members from various government agencies and community organizations. Here’s a look at their recent progress and some important upcoming dates related to this work: 

Recent SRTS Advisory Committee Agendas:

• July 30, 2024 – SRTS Advisory Committee Meeting inaugural regular meeting. 
  • Meeting Agenda
• August 15, 2024 – SRTS Advisory Committee special meeting
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• August 27, 2024 – SRTS Advisory Committee regular meeting
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Looking Ahead

Community feedback is vital to this process! To access location/online access to the meetings, see information about submitting testimony, and otherwise track the progress of the SRTS Advisory Committee work, please watch this SRTS Advisory Committee website that HIDOT is working to get up and running. In the meantime, you can check the state meeting websites for future SRTS Advisory Committee meeting information.