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Safe Routes

DPW-Infrastructure administers three Safe Routes programs, each designed to increase accessibility to public resources. 

 

Safe Routes to School 

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) uses programming and infrastructure to encourage children to walk and bike to school. The infrastructure improvements increase safety, comfort, and accessibility for everyone using the street. These changes can slow drivers, make people walking more visible, and improve bus infrastructure.

The long-term vision of Milwaukee’s SRTS program is to create an environment where more students and families walk and bike to school. The City of Milwaukee partners with local schools, community groups, and the Wisconsin Bike Fed to hold Safe Routes to School engagement activities for both students in their classrooms and the wider school community.

Learn more about completed and upcoming SRTS projects, the community engagement completed for each project, and the types of street improvements used for projects on the SRTS StoryMap. 

Safe Routes to School Story Map

 

Safe Routes to Transit 

Safe Routes to Transit works to improve pedestrian safety and access along high-frequency transit corridors in the city. 

The purpose of the project is to improve safety, accessibility, and comfort for people walking and using transit to shift trips currently made by automobile to walking and transit. The proposed project also aims to improve transit operations and frequency along routes and at transfer hubs.

The first phase of the program includes improving pedestrian and transit accommodations along two corridors identified on the Pedestrian High Injury Network in the 2019 Milwaukee Pedestrian Plan.

Recently, the program completed projects on W. Burleigh Street and S. César Chávez Drive.
 

Safe Routes to Parks 

State Routes to Parks develops pedestrian, bicycle and motor vehicle focused street improvements adjacent to or near parks.  

Currently, the program is finishing construction on two projects: 

  • King Park - This project will feature a mixture of detached curb extensions, buffered bike lanes, bus bulbs, accessible curb ramps, attached curb extensions. The 17th Street corridor will be a protected bike lane with several concrete curb extensions, buffered bike lanes, and bus bulbs. Click to view the project map. 
  • Tiefenthaler Park - This project will feature a mixture of accessible curb lamps, bus bulbs, attached and detached curb extensions, speed humps, and traffic circles. Click to view the project map.