Over 30 children live in Seagrove neighborhood along State Road A1A in Vero Beach and many attend Saint Edward's School, located directly across this busy road.

FDOT originally planned a sidewalk on the east side of A1A that would connect our neighborhood to a new crosswalk at the school traffic signal – providing a safe walking route for the first time.

After a campaign focused on landscaping and neighborhood aesthetics, FDOT revised the plan. The sidewalk will now end 1,100 feet south of our community entrance. The school crosswalk will still be built, but our children will have no safe way to reach it.

Every day children, adults, and families must dodge traffic to cross A1A to get to the sidewalk on the west side of the road. This is not hypothetical.

FDOT designed the sidewalk specifically to improve pedestrian safety. Child safety should not be sacrificed for landscaping preferences. The infrastructure work is already underway – the fix is simply extending the sidewalk as part of Project 449818-1.

We urge FDOT to reinstate the full sidewalk connection from Seagrove to the Saint Edward's School crosswalk.

Please sign and share this petition today. Every signature helps show FDOT and local leaders that our community prioritizes safe routes for kids.

Directed to:

• Jared Perdue, FDOT Secretary
• Katie Kehres, FDOT Safety Administrator 
• Steven C. Braun, P.E., FDOT District 4 Secretary
• Maria Formoso, P.E., FDOT Project Manager
• John Olson, P.E., FDOT District Design Engineer
• Indian River County Board of County Commissioners
• Senator Erin Grall
• Governor Ron DeSantis
• Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins