Grant Ave. two travel lanes, one parking lane as of 4/21/26

Beginning on Tuesday, April 21st, the City of Glens Falls will be double-yellow-striping Grant Avenue between Quade and Clayton to create two designated travel lanes, and one designated parking lane. 

• No stopping or parking will be permitted in the new west-bound travel lane. ⬅ 
• Parking spaces will be painted in the parking lane (the lane closest to the school field). ⬇
• Vehicles should continue moving in the travel lanes, except when the crossing guard is directing traffic to cross students on Grant or Austin.
• Students MUST be dropped off and picked up within a designated parking space, exiting closest to the school field. NEVER let a student exit into a travel lane, and NEVER let a student cross in the middle of a street to get to or from your car!
• PLEASE use Clayton Ave. to park, wait for, and pick up/drop off your student. 

Our students’ safety is absolutely the most important consideration in these changes, and we thank you in advance for adjusting your drop-off and pick-up logistics to keep everyone safe!

Stride, Ride, and Drive Safety

The “Stride, Ride, and Drive Safely” event on October 10, 2025 highlighted a significant number of safety improvements that the district and City of Glens Falls have implemented over the last two years … and there are even more projects to come. Here’s what has been done so far:

• Two different traffic studies, funded by the City of Glens Falls through Adirondack/Glens Falls Transportation Council, looking at vehicle and pedestrian traffic around the HS/MS complex. The 2023 study focused on the entire perimeter of the HS/MS complex, while the 2025 study looked specifically at Grant Ave. Several recommendations from that study were implemented by both the City and the District.
• Parking lots at the MS and HS were reconfigured and re-paved to allow for bus loops and additional parking spaces, bringing school buses off Quade Street during arrival and dismissal times.
• The district pays for HS/MS student bus passes to ride the CDTA 804 line, specifically designed for students on the outer edges of the district boundary, and running each school day in the morning and afternoon.
• Start and end times were changed in September 2024 to give the HS and MS 15 minutes between the first bells and the last bells for each school. This reduced the congestion associated with both schools starting at (basically) 8:30 a.m. and ending at 3:03 p.m.
• The district completed sidewalk work on Grant Ave. in 2023, and the City completed sidewalk work on Clayton Ave. in 2025. The City is now creating sidewalk connections on the east side of Quade Street, closing the long-existing gap. New sidewalks on Sherman Ave. (between Clayton and Western) are scheduled for completion this year, closing another long-existing gap. On Grant Ave., work has begun at Crandall and will move west toward Western, with completion targeted for this year.
• Over the next few months, the City and A/GFTC will conduct circulation studies around all elementary schools (BC, KRS, JH, Abe Wing) to identify ways to increase safety and reduce congestion, recommend infrastructure and signage upgrades, and provide data to guide future grant applications to state and federal programs for funding implementation.
• The City applied to the A/GFTC for a grant and was awarded $380,000 for infrastructure upgrades at three mid-block intersections around the HS/MS complex (and additional City locations). Engineering work is underway to locate and install flashing crossing beacons, updated signage, and high-visibility crosswalk paint at: Quade and Shippey; Quade and West Notre Dame; and Grant Avenue and Austin. The City will also install solar-powered speed feedback signs on Sherman Ave. — all covered by the grant.

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2025 Grant Avenue Neighbor meeting slides (July) 

2024 MS/HS Traffic Circulation Study

2012 MS/HS Traffic Circulation Study