For a review of activities and accomplishments in the first half of 2022, see Santa Fe SRTS Progress Report for 2022 1st Half. For a review of activities and accomplishments in 2021, see Santa Fe SRTS Progress Report for 2021.
SFSRTS staff and consultants began to take formal tallies of student arrivals and departures, using nationally-developed Student Travel Tally forms linked below, in visits to six local schools between September and November 2021. Work continued in 2022, including tallies taken at each SRTS educational session, to expand the sample to nearly 1,800 students. As indicated in the graph and table below, just over six percent reported arriving by non-motorized means on the day of the visit, including 4.7% walking, 1.1% bicycling, and 0.3% by scooter or skateboard. Nearly 80% of students arrived by their own family’s private vehicle and 15% arrived by school bus.
The complete findings on reported mode of arrival, including breakdowns by school, are as follows:
| School | Number of Counts | # am arrival | Walk | Bike | Other | Bus | Private Vehicle | Carpool |
| Aspen | 4 | 68 | 4.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 13.2% | 83.8% | 1.5% |
| Carlos Gilbert | 2 | 42 | 4.8% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 95.2% | 26.2% |
| Cesar Chavez | 5 | 228 | 2.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 21.9% | 74.1% | 1.3% |
| Chaparral | 1 | 22 | 4.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 27.3% | 68.2% | 0.0% |
| ECRA | 7 | 115 | 7.0% | 0.9% | 0.0% | 22.6% | 68.7% | 0.0% |
| Milagro | 10 | 197 | 4.6% | 1.5% | 0.0% | 18.8% | 75.6% | 0.5% |
| Nina Otero | 10 | 188 | 1.6% | 0.0% | 0.5% | 19.1% | 78.2% | 0.5% |
| Ortiz | 9 | 164 | 6.1% | 1.8% | 0.6% | 17.7% | 70.7% | 3.0% |
| Pinon | 3 | 53 | 1.9% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 5.7% | 92.5% | 0.0% |
| Ramirez Thomas | 20 | 362 | 4.1% | 0.8% | 0.0% | 10.5% | 84.3% | 0.3% |
| Santa Fe High | 1 | 21 | 4.8% | 4.8% | 0.0% | 4.8% | 85.7% | 0.0% |
| Sweeney | 8 | 204 | 3.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 15.2% | 81.4% | 0.5% |
| Wood Gormley* | 8 | 155 | 11.6% | 5.8% | 1.9% | 5.2% | 74.8% | 0.6% |
| Total | 86 | 1783 | 4.7% | 1.1% | 0.3% | 14.8% | 78.6% | 1.3% |
* Includes two tallies on Walk to School Day.
The following table focuses on walking, bicycling, and skating or scooting as a percentage of the total. Note that the highest proportions of non-motorized travel relate to school with skewed or very small sample sizes (as provided in table above).
| Total Non-Motorized (Walk + Bike + Other) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| School | W + B + Other | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Wood Gormley* | 19.4% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Santa Fe High | 9.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Ortiz | 8.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ECRA | 7.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Milagro | 6.1% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Ramirez Thomas | 5.0% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Carlos Gilbert | 4.8% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chaparral | 4.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Aspen | 4.4% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sweeney | 3.4% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cesar Chavez | 2.6% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nina Otero | 2.1% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pinon | 1.9% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 6.1% | ||||||||||||||||||||
* Includes two tallies on Walk to School Day.
Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) Safe Routes to School Evaluation Forms:
The SFSRTS Program has adapted the PBIC Parent Survey with locally significant questions added, in Spanish and English, particularly to solicit families’ involvement in our program activities. The new survey was tried out at three “Fix-It Fiestas” held in April 2022 in English-only paper forms, and piloted by Ortiz Middle School as a bilingual electronic survey in May of 2022.
