What are Safe Routes to School programs?
Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs are sustained efforts by parents, other community members, community leaders and local, state, and federal governments to improve the health and well-being of children by enabling and encouraging them to walk and bicycle to school.
SRTS programs examine conditions around schools and facilitate the planning, development, and implementation of projects and activities that improve safety and reduce traffic and air pollution in the vicinity of schools. As a result, these programs work to make bicycling and walking to school safer and more appealing transportation alternatives and foster a healthy and active lifestyle beginning in childhood.
SRTS programs use a variety of education, enforcement and engineering strategies that help make routes safer for children to walk and bicycle to school and encouragement strategies to motivate more children to choose these modes of travel. Programs have grown popular in recent years in response to problems created by an expanding built environment, a growing reliance on motor vehicles for student transportation and the more recent establishment of federal and state funding for SRTS programs to help improve current conditions.
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