Safe Routes to School Tatum Multi-Use Trail Project

About the Program

Category: Transportation (Best in Category)

Year: 2015

Abstract of the Program: The County of Santa Barbara, partnered with the Santa Barbara Unified School District and the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments in this project. The project included the construction of the Safe Routes to School Tatum Multi-Use Trail. Construction was completed between July 7 and August 4, 2014. The new path connects El Camino Elementary School with previously isolated neighborhoods to the east. This project replaced an existing narrow, wooded, uneven dirt pathway that was often flooded and impassable during rainfall events. The new path is a 10 feet wide and 1,300 feet long, all-weather asphalt surface that accommodates pedestrians and bicyclists.