Overview

Project background

Roosevelt High School was the 2019 focus area for the City's Safe Routes to School Program. This program supports the City's commitment to Vision Zero. Vision Zero is a policy to end all traffic deaths and severe injuries on Minneapolis Streets

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To identify potential treatments

We collected data and engaged with Roosevelt

• Staff
• Students
• The surrounding community

Project goals

The project goals included:

• Create safer and shorter crossings for people walking and rolling
• Improve safety and visibility for people crossing
• Reduce motor vehicle speed and calm traffic
• Make pedestrian crossings more predictable

Project scope

The project focused on pedestrian improvements.

As part of the Roosevelt High School - SRTS project:
We proposed safety improvements along 28th Ave S between 40th St E and 41st St E

Completed construction 

The proposal included:

• Construction of two median refuge islands on 28th Ave S. We did this to
  • create safer, shorter crossings for people walking or rolling 
  • calm traffic
• Removing some on-street parking on 28th Ave S.
• Creating new parking areas south of the new medians and on side streets (40th St. E.)

The City and Roosevelt High School staff and students spoke to residents in the area. We did this to identify the improvements they wanted to see.

In summer 2019, Public Works constructed the project.