Safe Routes to Parks

Safe Routes to Parks was an initiative led by the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health and Vision Zero Program and funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, to improve pedestrian safety and park access in Philadelphia. Connect the Dots led interagency collaboration by convening city agencies, facilitating strategic discussions, and piloting an audit activity to develop actionable solutions for safer streets. The result of the conversations was a summary document with a menu of actionable strategies for agencies to implement, recommendations for aligning interagency roles and workflows, ideas for pilot projects and champion agencies to lead the projects, and proposed milestones.