{"id":21698,"date":"2025-06-25T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/city-seeks-input-on-pedestrian-cyclist-safety-near-mesa-elementary\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:08:26","slug":"city-seeks-input-on-pedestrian-cyclist-safety-near-mesa-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/city-seeks-input-on-pedestrian-cyclist-safety-near-mesa-elementary\/","title":{"rendered":"City seeks input on pedestrian, cyclist safety near Mesa Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=985444d5-f366-499e-ab00-bbe185029c8c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"675\" alt=\"School district officials could not confirm whether the outbreak at Mesa Elementary School in Cortez involved students, teacher or both.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">School district officials could not confirm whether the outbreak at Mesa Elementary School in Cortez involved students, teacher or both.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Montezuma-Cortez School District<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The city of Cortez is inviting residents, particularly those who live, work or recreate near Mesa Elementary School, to participate in a community survey to assess pedestrian and bicyclist safety. The survey specifically looks at areas near West Seventh and South Cedar streets. The survey will remain open until July 18.<\/p>\n<p>The city hopes to gather feedback to guide street and sidewalk improvements near Mesa Elementary, with construction planned for summer 2026. The project is funded by a 2022 Safe Routes to School grant from the Colorado Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The project near Mesa is focused on creating a safer route to school for students. Safe Routes to School, which was launched in the 1990s, promotes improving safety and infrastructure around schools.<\/p>\n<p>Responses from residents will inform planning to ensure safer, more accessible routes for students and residents.<\/p>\n<p>For details on the Safe Routes to School program and the Mesa Elementary project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cortezco.gov\/927\/Safe-Routes-to-School.%20%0A\" id=\"link-6dda6e64167667814f46386310c4fd60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit<\/a> <a href=\"www.cortezco.gov\/927\/Safe-Routes-to-School\" id=\"link-57ea773d220cf0a0e59026860819c621\" target=\"_blank\">www.cortezco.gov\/927\/Safe-Routes-to-School<\/a>. The survey can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/FN6XLDG.%20%20%0A\" id=\"link-f2f94884ecfb5b753c6cafa5bc91ced2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a> at <a href=\"www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/FN6XLDG\" id=\"link-f0d14a055a17472a40083d03f2fc14e5\" target=\"_blank\">www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/FN6XLDG<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feedback would guide street and sidewalk improvements <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,21,155,28,1855,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-21698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-community","tag-cortez","tag-education","tag-headlines","tag-mesa-elementary","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77423,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21698\/revisions\/77423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21698"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}