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Event Info
Toolbox Tuesdays: Safe Routes to School Grants and Bike & Ped Planning
June 26, 2012
Time: 10:00 AM
Email: anderson@scag.ca.gov
WWW: www.scag.ca.gov/toolboxtuesdays
Contact Name: Marco Anderson
Phone: (213) 236-1879
For Further Information:
Today, just 13% of children ages 5 to 14 walk and bicycle to and from school nationwide—a dramatic drop from 1969 when nearly 50% of children walked to school. As a result, school districts and families spend billions on transportation and the volume of vehicles around schools creates traffic congestion, air pollution and wear and tear. During the morning commute, driving to school represents 5-7% of miles driven and 10-14% of traffic on the road.
The Safe Routes to School movement is a broad based network of public agencies, community based organizations, pedestrian and bicycle advocates, parents, teachers, principals, public health leaders and other stakeholders all working to support and encourage walkable and bikeable communities and address the alarming increase of childhood obesity. Funding for these programs comes from the federal Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program and the California Safe Routes to School program (SR2S) which can be used for infrastructure and educational programs that make it safer for children to walk and bicycle to and from school. Learn how to leverage SR2S funding to improved bicycle and pedestrian connections in their communities.
