Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Safe Routes to Schools

Pedestrian Tragedy in the Valley, Again!

By Stephen Box | Mar 16, 2012 | 5 Comments

This past Tuesday, early in the afternoon, 11-year-old twin sisters Sydney and Alexis left Walter Reed Middle School and began to walk home, a trip that ended at Colfax Avenue and Moorpark Street when they were hit by a car as they attempted to cross the street. By all rights, it was a tragic afternoon […]

It’s Time to Get Serious About Bicycle Education

By Howard Krepack | Oct 18, 2011 | 3 Comments

From childhood, we are constantly being taught the rules of the road. We’ve seen siblings get speeding tickets, heard parents honk at discourteous drivers, and read about tragedies caused by drunk and distracted driving. By the time we are old enough to enroll in a driver’s education course and apply for a driver’s license, we […]

Public Health Student Stephanie Hopp: With a Growing Effort Toward Safe Routes to Schools, Why Not Safe Routes to Universities?

By Stephanie Hopp | Sep 8, 2011 | 10 Comments

Stephanie Hopp is a fourth year student at Union College studying Biology, Environmental Science and Spanish. She is actively involved in biking, health, and environmental protection and plans to pursue a Masters in Public Health following her undergraduate education. With gas prices reaching nearly five dollars per gallon and university tuitions on the rise, getting to and around school […]

When Safe Routes to School Is About More than Bike Lanes and Sidewalks

By Damien Newton | Sep 1, 2011 | 6 Comments

What do you do when the main barrier to encouraging more students to walk and bicycle to school isn’t social pressures or broken infrastructure, but a different sort of public safety hazard? What do you do when it’s not motorists, but gangs that imperil children who want to walk or bike to school? If you […]

Best Practices: Bike It! Day in Santa Monica

By Damien Newton | Aug 30, 2011 | 5 Comments

In the fall of 2007, a pair of high school students in Santa Monica High School (Samohi), decided to organize their own Bike to School Day. Somewhere between 80 and 100 high school students took part that first year, which is a respectable number for a student-run event with no budget, but nobody could have0for […]

Krepack: It’s Past Time to Invest in Safe Routes to Schools

By Howard Krepack | Aug 11, 2011 | 2 Comments

Next time you pass by one of our community’s schools, take a look at the surrounding streets and one sobering realization will strike you: the streets around our schools are unsafe. You’ll probably witness students hurrying across five- or six-lane roads, only to reach sidewalks where they must dodge cars whipping into the school parking […]

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