Safe Routes to School
Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a national and international movement to create safe, convenient and healthy opportunities for children to walk and bicycle to school. Safe Routes to School efforts include programs that encourage biking and walking, as well as infrastructure projects that improve conditions for walking and biking to school. These programs and projects may be eligible for Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside (TASA) funding.
Safe Routes Programming
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BIKE BUS
From BikeBus World, "A Bike Bus is an organized group of children and families riding bikes to school together along a set route. It can go to one or multiple schools, have one or multiple starting points, and can have a few or a lot of children and families, but all Bike Buses have similar joy, positivity, community feel, and transformative energy". WALKING SCHOOL BUS From WalkingSchoolBus.org, "A walking school bus is a group of children walking to school with one or more adults. If that sounds simple, it is, and that’s part of the beauty of the walking school bus. It can be as informal as two families taking turns walking their children to school to as structured as a route with meeting points, a timetable and a regularly rotated schedule of trained volunteers". |
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Bicycle Rodeos
PennDOT Resource - PA Bike Rodeo Guide
Funding
Want to make your local routes to school safer? Learn more about funding opportunities. Need assistance? Reach out to SPC Staff
Supporting OrganizationsNational Center for Safe Routes to School
-Coordinating organization for Walk & Roll to School Day every October and Bike & Roll to School Day every May. -Launched Vision Zero for Youth -Supports Quick Build Projects -Data Processing Services Walk, Bike, & Roll to School Safe Routes Partnership |
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Safe Routes to Parks
Ensuring safe access to public parks is key to improving health outcomes in America, but not all communities are equipped with the resources needed to provide safe access to parks, such as investing in new sidewalks and crosswalks with personal safety improvements. A new Safe Routes to Parks Action Framework developed by the National Recreation and Park Association in collaboration with the Safe Routes to School National Partnership provides evidence- and practice-based guidance to help local park and recreation agencies implement policies and practices that create safe and equitable access to parks for all people.
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