City of Glens Falls Elementary Schools Transportation Access Studies

The Glens Falls City School District (GFSD) and the Glens Falls Common School District (GFCSD), in conjunction with the City of Glens Falls, New York, has requested assistance from the Adirondack / Glens Falls Transportation Council (A/GFTC) to identify concepts to improve transportation access and safety at and around the four public elementary schools located within the City (Abraham Wing, Big Cross Street, Jackson Heights, and Kensington Road. A/GFTC responses from interested and qualified professional transportation planning and engineering firms to develop plans for each elementary school that identify improvement opportunities, capital project candidates, recommendations for changes to on-street circulation patterns, operational and policy-based modifications, associated conceptual costs, and realistic funding opportunities. The selected consultant team will work closely with A/GFTC staff, the GFSD and GFSCD administrations, City officials, and community stakeholders to complete these analyses.

A/GFTC has previously completed access plans for Abraham Wing (2009), Big Cross Street (2010), and Jackson Heights (2014). As all public elementary schools within Glens Falls provide buses only for those students with special needs or circumstances, those prior studies emphasized improvements to enhance the shares of students and families that elected to utilize non-motorized transportation modes to and from school. Vulnerable road users (those traveling outside of motorized vehicles) will continue to be a priority of these updated studies, but measures to improve accommodations for motorists will also be considered.