The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) recently launched its 2021-2022 Infrastructure Funding Program through its Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program.
“This program serves as a great resource for school communities to ensure that key infrastructure is in place to support safe walking and biking to and from school,” MassDOT Secretary and COE Jamey Tesler said. “We are pleased to continue to work with our Safe Routes to School partners to identify opportunities that encourage access to safe and healthy transportation.”
Schools must build a partnership with the SRTS non-infrastructure program to be eligible for the SRTS Infrastructure Program. Programs must involve education, encouragement, engagement, equity, and evaluation activities, and applicants must be an SRTS partner for at least six months before applying.
Eligible projects include transportation construction and capital improvement projects located within two miles of a school serving children in any grade between kindergarten and eighth grade and will improve safety and/or increase the number of children walking and biking to school.
The program provides design and construction services for projects costing between $300,000 and $1.5 million in areas immediately around public elementary and middle schools.
The application period runs through the end of the business day on Dec. 1.