Kansas City bond issue includes many Safe Routes to School, sidewalk, crosswalk projects - The Northland News

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Students at Maplewood Elementary School are bused literally one block to school because it has been deemed unsafe for walking. Topping Elementary School students living in the Holiday Hills neighborhood are less than half a mile from the school, yet because there isn’t a connecting roadway from the neighborhood to the school, the school district has to bus the students over a mile to school.

I should note that Maplewood Elementary received $250,000 from the Searcy Creek TIF and additional $280,000 from PIAC to construct sidewalks along the school’s property. This is a good start, but it’s not enough as students still are forced to walk in the roadway or ditch to get to the new sidewalks.

As Kansas City prepares its list of projects to be included in the potential $1 billion General Obligation Bond (GO) we need to make sure our voice is heard. I’m a neighborhood guy, so when I heard that the project list was being complied I reached out to the councilmembers that represent the North Kansas City School District and provided a “wish list” of projects – about $65 million – that would dramatically modernize our older neighborhoods, while making sure our kiddos have safe routes to school (SRTS).

The list of improvements includes ADA ramps, complete streets, improved crosswalks, curbs, sidewalks, storm sewers, roadway reconstruction and the construction of Searcy Creek Parkway.

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Kansas City bond issue includes many Safe Routes to School, sidewalk, crosswalk projects - The Northland News