This two-page Spanish-language flyer demonstrates how to properly fit a bicycle helmet.
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Community problems & solutions
Bike Safety Cartoon
This cartoon teaches children to check their helmets, brakes, handlebars, and tires before riding.
Good Practices Guide for Bicycle Safety Education
The Good Practices Guide is a useful resource for educators who plan to develop bicycle safety education programs, or selecting the most effective existing bicycle safety education program for their curriculum needs.
The Good Practices Guide contains:
* 16 cases of bicycle safety education programs, describing the various components and what aspects were and were not successful.
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How do you manage heated public meetings?
Whenever people discuss change, some stakeholders can become overly passionate, especially if they are in the minority. How can you keep the process from becoming derailed? Successful mediation requires skill and training. Check with a community mediation service for the availability of volunteers to mediate or facilitate a process to resolve conflicts.
How can we get the City to install a traffic signal at our school?
When there is a safety problem, such as speeding traffic near a school, you could be tempted to frame the issue in terms of the solution. For example, you might think a traffic signal would solve the problem. Although it is possible your idea is a good solution, it is more effective to seek input from the professionals before deciding on a solution.
2006 Walk to School Event Organizer Survey Findings and Recommendations
This report summarizes findings from the 2006 Walk to School Organizer survey, proposes implications of the findings and recommends actions that would strengthen the conduct of future events and increase capacity and demand for Safe Routes to School programs.
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From the Margins to the Mainstream
The Surface Transportation Policy Partnership offers a guide designed to help the user understand the transportation opportunities in their community. The guide provides a rationale on why planning is fundamental to providing transportation options and locating funding sources to cover the costs of projects. Also discussed are ways to design safe, healthy and livable communities and ways to create greater transportation choice and access.
Do you have an image library?
The National Center for Safe Routes to School does not have an image library. However, if you are interested in images of children walking and bicycling to school please visit the International Walk to School Day photo library at IWalk.org. Here you will find hundreds of images searchable by county, region, city and year.
Streets for People, Your Guide to Winning Safer and Quiter Streets
Streets for People is a toolkit full of solutions for traffic problems that people all over the city are talking about. It's also a description of how people everywhere are using these tools to beat back the threat that uncontrolled motorized traffic poses to their safety and quality of life. You can have a livable community while keeping motor vehicle access to homes and businesses. This booklet will show you the way.