Safe Routes to School

{{Short description|Program encouraging walking and cycling to school}}

Safe Routes to School programs are a public health initiative in the United States and elsewhere designed to encourage more children to walk or cycle to and from school.Galway City Council, [https://www.galwaycity.ie/srts Safe Routes to School], accessed 22 August 2023

In the US, a Safe Routes to School program was first formed and funded on the national level as part of the 2005 federal transportation bill known as SAFETEA-LU.{{Cite web |title=Federal SRTS Law {{!}} Safe Routes Partnership |url=https://www.saferoutespartnership.org/national/policy-background/federal-srts-law |access-date=2024-08-06 |website=www.saferoutespartnership.org}}

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{{cite news |last=Brody |first=Jane E. |date=September 11, 2007 |title=Turning the Ride to School Into a Walk |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/health/11brod.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=August 1, 2023 |quote=Forty years ago, half of all students walked or bicycled to school. Today, fewer than 15 percent travel on their own steam. One-quarter take buses, and about 60 percent are transported in private automobiles, usually driven by a parent or, sometimes, a teenager. The change was primarily motivated by parents' safety concerns — a desire to protect their children from traffic hazards and predators. But it has had several unfortunate consequences.}}

{{cite news |last=Hoffman |first=Jan |date=September 12, 2009 |title=Why Can't She Walk to School? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/fashion/13kids.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=August 1, 2023 |quote=The federally funded Safe Routes to School program has been working with communities to address problems that impede children from walking or biking to school.}}

{{cite news |last=McDermott |first=Jennifer |date=May 26, 2014 |title=Kids, parents are embracing the walking school bus |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kids-parents-are-embracing-the-walking-school-bus/2014/05/26/73ce7a6a-e522-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 1, 2023 |quote=Many programs across the country are funded by the federal Safe Routes to School program, which pays for infrastructure improvements and initiatives to enable children to walk and ride bicycles to school.}}

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Category:Public health in the United States

Category:Student transport

Category:Health and transport

Category:Urban planning in the United States

Category:Pedestrian activism