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Key Takeaways <br />While active transportation about many benefits, the concerns regarding personal safety due to infrastructure <br />barriers, violence, traffic behaviors, and lack of enforcement prevents caregivers to be comfortable with their <br />child walking and biking to school. For the City of North Olmsted to have a transportation network that will be <br />safe and favorable for the students to walk and bike to school, there has to be a concrete and collaborative <br />effort to address key active transportation infrastructure and non -infrastructure barriers. <br />"Lorain Road has insanely, fast drivers." <br />"Intersections are terrible! People drive with no concern for pedestrians." <br />"Cars have actually turned and clipped his bike more than once, and also, I have heard this happening to <br />other kids he knows. Cars don't look when turning!" <br />"My son was hit on his bike twice by cars pulling in/ out of their driveways." <br />"The areas where the children need to cross the street to get to school are not well lit." <br />"The sidewalk is a little rough to walk on in rainy weather. The sidewalk floods and my children have to <br />walk on lawns to go around giant puddles of run off from the road." <br />"I bought my daughter a bike so she could ride it to school and within a few weeks it was stolen." <br />"1 have called the school, the city, and the police department about getting a crossing guard so my child <br />can walk/bike safety and more children willjoin. They have not gotten back to me." <br />"If more police visibility were afforded on the backmads and main mutes,.., it might change my mind." <br />A l7'lJ Q 28 A <br />