Tag: safe routes to school

October 3, 2014

Score a Safe Routes to School mini grant + Take the city’s neighborhood greenways survey

Got an idea for a project that could encourage more kids to bike or walk to your neighborhood school? Whether the school is private or public, the city wants to help make it happen with grants of up to $1,000. Maybe you and some other parents want to start a walking school bus or bike…
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tagged: neighborhood greenways, safe routes to school, sdot
September 3, 2014

Seattle’s Safe Routes to School efforts now reach nearly all schools

After such terribly sad news like the death of Sher Kung on 2nd Ave last week, it’s perhaps more important than ever to look at road safety programs in Seattle that truly work at preventing traffic deaths and injuries. And there may not be a better example than the city’s fantastically-successful Safe Routes to School…
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tagged: safe routes to school, school zone speed cameras, sdot, seattle public schools
August 28, 2014

Poll: Nearly every resident wants safe routes to Washington schools

If you think it’s a bad idea to make walking and biking routes around schools in Washington State safer, congratulations! You are a rare find. A statewide phone poll commissioned by the Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition found that a nearly unanimous 88 percent of state residents believes we should be planning our communities so that…
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tagged: barb chamberlain, blake trask, cascade bicycle club, childhood obesity prevention coalition, elizabeth kiker, safe routes to school, washington bikes
May 27, 2014

Two chances this week to weigh in on school road safety investments

One of Seattle’s smartest road safety strategies in recent years has been its school road safety efforts, funded in large part by school zone speeding cameras. You have two chances this week to weigh in on the efforts and help guide investments: Tuesday (today), 6 p.m. at Northeast Branch Library (NE 68th St and 35th…
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tagged: safe routes to school, sdot, seattle neighborhood greenways, speeding cameras
May 8, 2014

WA Bikes: Bike education spreads across the state

Communities across Washington State have been expanding the bike education programs in their schools, thanks in large part to the work of Washington Bikes and the state’s Safe Routes to School program. The education effort is one more way that Washington communities big and small, conservative and liberal, have embraced bicycling as a healthy and…
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tagged: education, la center, safe routes to school, washington bikes
October 2, 2013

Mini grants available to help kickstart biking and walking to school

Are you a student, parent or teacher who wishes it were safer, easier or more inviting to walk or bike to your Seattle public or private school? Well, SDOT wants to give you some cash to help make that happen. The opportunities are pretty wide-ranging. Let your imagination run wild. Details from SDOT: The Seattle…
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tagged: safe routes to school, sdot