In August, we sent a link to the Safe Routes to School community to ask questions about federal policy related to walking, bicycling, and Safe Routes to School and committed to answering them here on the blog. Do you have questions? Submit them here.
Questions are italicized. Answers are bulleted below.
“How does your analysis on Aug 10 jibe with DeFazio’s work?”
After a busy spring and summer working on legislation to reauthorize surface transportation spending, Congress is staring down a September 30th expiration date for current funding. Congress must reauthorize transportation spending or pass a short-term extension in order to maintain funding for transportation. Where things currently stand:
Bicycle Safer Journey helps educators, parents and others who care about bicycle safety to get the conversation started with children and youth.
This promotional toolkit can be used to dissimenate the report, Investing in Health, Safety, and Mobility: A Report on State Funding for Walking, Bicycling, and Safe Routes to School - Promotional Toolkit.
Community level strategies to promote physical activity have the potential to improve health and well-being. This report provides evidence and an analysis on the benefits of promoting active travel to school for children of all ages.
This toolkit includes communications resources, content and collateral that you can customize and share to get more schools, parents and students involved. We encourage you to use them in your outreach and campaigns.
This toolkit provides great step-by-step instructions on how to create and plan your own traffic playground.
BikeNWA believes that learning to ride a bike in a positive, safe and fun environment is key to becoming a happy and healthy life-long rider. Let’s Play BikesNWA is a free three-part guide to help parents to facilitate learning in a simple, fun and low-stress way.
Balance bikes are bikes that have no pedals, and children push themselves along the ground with their feet, figuring out how to find their balance. Balance Bikes are an innovative method of teaching kids how to ride a bike without relying on training wheels.
On Sunday, August 1, 2021, a bipartisan group of Senators released the final bill text for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. This bill reauthorizes transportation funding through 2026 and incorporates priorities originally identified in President Biden’s American Jobs Act. It is currently being debated and amended on the Senate floor. We will continue to update this post as developments occur.
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Watch videos below to learn how students and organizations are using events and programs to encourage sustainable transportation and improve their commute.
English and Spanish Walking School Bus materials and promotional videos. IL
Below are videos to help coordinators, parents and educators teach the skills necessary for everyone to be safe and confident road users.
Learn to ride is a class/method/program to teach someone how to ride a bike for the first time.
Each of these Active Transportation Bingo cards focuses on a specific theme and you can use them to prompt different discussions about walking or cycling.
While you walk and roll in your immediate neighborhood, King County Metro encourages you and your family to limit the spread of COVID-19 by following public health recommendations. Use these tips to help keep you and others safe:
A calendar to keep you healthy with activities for you every day.
Working with universities, organizations, and agencies around the country, the National Documentation Project proposes the following objectives