Welcome to the new Safe Routes Mapping Site
Principals & Districts, please see below for information and tips to navigate the new site.
The goal of Safe Routes Utah is to help children get to and from school safely while motivating children to experience the benefits of walking or biking to school. School leadership officials have a significant influence on the way students travel to and from school. Policies, procedures, and projects can be promoted at the school and district level that address concerns, improve safety, increase physical activity, and encourage students to walk and bike more often.
Information for Principals and Districts
Safe Routes Utah is thrilled to launch our new mapping site. Please be aware that we have updated the mapping process on the site. Schools should:
- Identify their Safe Routes Mapping Committee. This should include:
- School Administrator (principal or vice principal)
- Local law enforcement
- City/County engineer and/or public works
- PTA/PTO
- Interested parents, guardians, or school employees
- Create/Update their Safe Routes map and submit for district approval
- Create update their Safe Routes Report
- This is a new step and can be found directly under their School Resources section where they edit their map.
- Once finished, a PDF of the report will be sent to the email address specified on the report within 24 hours. This can be distributed to cities and other partners, put on the school’s website for students and parents and other places.
- Once the first report has been created, the school will not need to create a new report each time moving forward. They can simply find previously created reports on the site by version date and make edits to those reports.
Reminders for principals and districts for the new site:
- Usernames are associated with the schools, not individuals. However, the contact information for the school can be updated and changed by contacting maps@saferoutesutah.com.
- Your school’s map will only be visible on the public view if it has been approved by the district within the last year. If a map does not show up, it means it has not been approved, by the district.
- School maps need to be submitted and approved annually, but can be updated and approved at any time and as often as needed.
- If a school makes changes after the district has approved their map, those changes will not show up on the public map until the district has re-approved the map.
- Once a school is ready to submit their map, they will need to click on their school icon on the map. This will auto-fill the submit form.
Safe Routes Plan
Under Utah law, every elementary, middle and junior high school is required to create a Safe Routes Plan. It should be reviewed annually to see if there have been changes to the school attendance boundary, walk zone or the adjacent neighborhoods.
After the Safe Routes Plan has been reviewed and accepted by all involved parties–including the school, district, city, county and UDOT–it is the principal’s responsibility to distribute the approved safe routing map plan accompanied by a text description to every student enrolled in the school.
If you have any questions about the mapping site or your login information, please contact khoschouer@utah.gov
New to the mapping process and not sure where to start?
Use this in-depth guide to help you understand the steps of what goes into making your school’s Safe Routes map.
Take a look at a great example of a city going through the Safe Routes planning process.
See how Herriman City walks through the planning process on their blog below.
Mapping Video Tutorials
School Login Overview
Safe Route Lines
Symbols
District Login Overview & Approvals
Safe Routes Reports
