December 23, 20152 Comments on Safe Routes for All
The Santa Clara County Public Health Department in California, Traffic Safe Communities Network (TSCN), and the Santa Clara County Safe Routes to School Providers Group published this “Safe Routes for All” video showing various people in the South Bay expressing their support for Safe Routes.
November 14, 20131 Comment on Safe Routes to School policy boilerplate
ChangeLab Solutions, a non-profit that works to improve livability, has created a simple Safe Routes to School policy builder tool for use by school districts to generate a boilerplate Safe Routes policy.
A written Safe Routes to School policy focuses school district staff in encouraging active transportation to school.
To use the online toolkit, all you need to do is plug in some basic facts about your local school district, and select from among one to four options available in the various policy areas. You then punch the GO button to generate your own Safe Routes to School Policy for adoption by your local school district board.
The tool also provides resources for discussion when you bring this up at the school board.
The user interface is a little bit non-intuitive. Once you get started, the “PREV PAGE” and “NEXT PAGE” buttons don’t seem to work; you need to select from the policy areas in the left sidebar. You choose the policy option you want by clicking inside of the gray text box.
April 17, 2012Leave a Comment
For several years, Jody Lazar and other parents have run a “Walk & Roll” program for their elementary and middle school children in Maitland, Florida (north of Orlando, FL).
August 17, 20115 Comments on Federal gas tax expires in September
Have you noticed the 18.4 cent Federal gasoline tax that funds 90% of the U.S. Highway Trust Fund expires on September 30?
June 16, 2011Leave a Comment
Early bird registration ($50 discount!) deadline is Friday, June 17, 2011.
The 3rd National Safe Routes to School Conference takes place August 16 – 18, 2011. Here’s why cycling advocates should go.
May 19, 20112 Comments on San Francisco Wiggle PSA
“San Francisco has too many hills and too much traffic to be enjoyable and safe for cyclists.”
Or: “The Urban Myth that desperately needs to be exposed for what it really is: a myth.”
San Francisco has long been a great place to ride, and broad-spectrum bicycle infrastructure upgrades have made it even better in the past few years. Miles and miles of new, clearly-marked bike lanes, traffic calming measures, bike boxes, and designated routes that avoid busy streets and go around the steepest hills are just some of the things cyclists in the City by the Bay are smiling about.
One of the oldest and most used of the designated routes in SF is the “Wiggle” . (more…)