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Identify which risks are present and how they affect priority populations K. Project Improvements Existing safety risks or hazards for students who walk/bike to school include - 1)walking a narrow shoulder, especially students with ADA needs; 2) walking along a minor arterial with high traffic volumes, even higher during school start and stop times; 3)students being "mixed" and in close proximity to vehicles; 4)vehicle speeding along Lake valentine Road and Old Snelling Avenue; 5)Gaps in a separated walking trail system; 6)lnadequate ADA access to ramps and connections. According to the SRTS Equity Scores spreadsheet, Mounds View High School has an Equity Score of 46.55, with 30% of students identified as people of color, 12.6% of the student qualifying for FRPL, 15.4% of the population between 5-17 years old (those of whom would walk or bike to school), and 18.4% in a household with only one car. Priority populations, those who are more likely to rely on walking and biking; more vulnerable to unsafe traffic conditions; or suffered historic disinvestment in safe, comfortable, walking and biking infrastructure rely disproportionally on the existing conditions this trial will improve. Students who rely on walking and biking to school are subject to these risks every time they use this route to school, risks which are non-existent to students who can be driven or disabled students with alternate forms of transportation. Some disabled students can't adequately navigate these risks and could be precluded from accessing school at all by walking or biking unless a more suitable trail is constructed.