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Form 2334 (08/09) Page 5 of 6 Project Number: (For TxDOT use only) Proposed Improvement Project Total points available - 40 Description of Proposed Solution (Limit 5,000 characters): Instructions: Use this space to describe how the proposed improvement project will improve safety and encourage biking and walking to school. The connection between the problem(s) and the proposed improved project must be clearly demonstrated. If documentation such as sketches, pictures, maps, exhibits, diagrams, and tables are to be submitted, they must be referenced in the text and numbered sequentially. There will be a place on the online submission form to identify and attach these documents. Please attend to, at a minimum, the following: 1. Describe how the proposed project improves safety within finro miles of your school(s), with respect to the identified problem(s), including the potential to reduce child injuries and fatalities. 2. Describe how the student population will be affected by the implementation of this infrastructure project. Example: What is the anticipated percent increase of children who will walk or bike to school after the project is implemented? Complete Appendix B: PROPOSED ENVIRONMENT (POST-PROJECT) for each school (included in this application). 3. Describe any enforcement, encouragement and/or educational components related to your project, either existing or planned. If one or more of the components are not included, please explain why the component is not an integral part of the project. 4. Describe the existing and expected land-use changes, such as new schools, housing and/or commercial developments, which would impact the amount of bicycle and pedestrian travel. For example, a new 100 home subdivision is being built next to an elementary school on a heavily traveled arterial roadway without connecting sidewalks or 100,000 square feet of additional retail is expected to be constructed at the intersection northwest quadrant in the next five years. Please include relevant sections of a comprehensive plan or bicycle and pedestrian plan, if available. Safe Routes to School Program (SRTS) Infrastructure Project Application Y ~ ~ R'