Tag: safe routes to school

October 8, 2015

How Seattle plans to fuel its grassroots walk-and-bike-to-school revolution

With parents and students leading the way, supported by city staff, elected officials and safe streets organizations, Seattle just dropped an astounding plan to take the city’s walk-and-bike-to-school revolution to the next level. The plan has been a long time in the making and includes extensive research into best practices for cities, parents, students, schools…
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tagged: clint loper, ed murray, safe routes to school, safe routes to school action plan, scott kubly
June 1, 2015

Support safe streets at Move Seattle public hearing Tuesday

The Move Seattle transportation levy puts a pretty strong emphasis on safety, but there’s one key piece that many safe streets advocates in the city think is far too low: Safe Routes to School. You can tell the City Council what you think of Move Seattle (see our previous coverage here, here and here) and…
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tagged: anne fote, cathy tuttle, city council, move seattle, move seattle levy, safe routes to school
April 9, 2015

Only 1 in 4 Safe Routes to School get funding in WA, lawmakers now have chance to fix that

Few issues in Washington are as divisive as transportation funding. But communities big and small all around Washington State all agree on one thing: The streets near and leading to our schools need to be safe. That’s why so many communities have sent the state proposals for Safe Routes to School projects that would make…
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tagged: 2015 legislature, safe routes to school, washington bikes
April 1, 2015

The city wants to give you cash to start a Safe Routes to School project

Got an idea for a way to encourage more kids at your school to bike or walk to class? Maybe you and some parents or teachers want to throw a bike-to-school party or start a bike train or walking school bus. Or maybe a bike rodeo would a fun way to teach kids how to…
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tagged: mini grants, safe routes to school, sdot
December 23, 2014

Huffington Post spotlights Seattle’s bike to school movement, research

The Huffington Post has a great profile of some of Seattle’s bike to school efforts and research by Seattle Children’s to learn more about its effects on students. We have written many times about Seattle’s bike to school revolution. It’s one of the coolest things happening in the city in recent years as schools and…
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tagged: anne king, car free days, huffington post, jason mendoza, lynne peeples, maya jacobs, safe routes to school, seattle children’s
December 12, 2014

Help city ID dangerous spots using their new Safe Routes to School wikimap

While the state’s Highway 99 tunnel project’s recent serious and scary mishaps show a massive transportation investment gone awry, it’s important to highlight the absolutely incredible work Seattle is doing to increase safety near the city’s schools. Using a relatively small budget, the city’s Safe Routes to School program is getting big results. This program…
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tagged: safe routes to school, school road safety initiative, sdot