This blog post was written by Sara Zimmerman and Marisa Jones.
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Key Tools for Supporting Healthy, Active Communities
Complete Streets policies, together with bicycle and pedestrian plans, are two key tolls used by cities and counties to support community visions and goals for walking and bicycling and health.
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Complete Streets policies and bicycle and pedestrian plans are two key tools used by cities and counties to support community visions and goals for health.
Fact Sheet
This series of fact sheets offers ideas and examples of strategies to advance equity in every stage of the Safe Routes to Parks Action Framework.
Fact Sheet
Best Practices and Equity Framing
We’ve updated our guide to effectively communicating about walking and biking with a new section focused on equity language and framing.
Fact Sheet
Promoting Safe Routes to School Through Policy
One important way to strengthen your Safe Routes to School program is by passing a Safe Routes to School district policy.
Colorful crosswalks. Temporary bike lanes. Playful paths. Creating new green space. These are just a few ways to improve local park access. We just wrapped up work with our first cohort of communities in the Safe Routes to Parks Activating Communities program, which provides individualized consultation, group trainings, and grant funding to nonprofits to improve safe, equitable park access in their communities.
Every quarter, we look at how state departments of transportation are handling their allocations for the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP). This is a particularly important quarter as it marks the end of the federal fiscal year, which is the deadline for states to obligate their FY2015 funding or lose it.
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Walk audits are a great tool in creating communities where residents can participate in making their vision of healthy, safe, walkable streets real.
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New to Safe Routes to School?
This blog post was written by Haden Kirkpatrick.
Toolkit
This guide will help California communities understand the process of applying to the Active Transportation Program, with our recommendations for how to plan for, draft and submit your application.
Case Study
How Poorly Planned Industrial Zoning Threatens Children's Health and Safety
In this case study, we explore how economic growth and poor land use planning are contributing to the decline in community health for the Inland Valley, especially for low-income people and communities of color in the region.
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A Resource Guide for Improving Physical Activity Opportunities in Your Community
Shared use is a tool that property owners can use to fill a need in their community for recreational facilities and increase opportunities for physical activity. This guide covers two types of promotion: promoting your shared use space to program providers and promoting the activities and programs to community members.
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Planning Your Program in 4 Easy Steps!
When kids walk to school, they improve their health, gain independence and confidence, and arrive at school ready to learn. A Walk to School Day event is a simple starting place for getting students started safely walking to school, and introducing schools, families, and community groups to Safe Routes to School.
In 2015, the American Heart Association in Hampton Roads, Virginia added a new dimension to its annual 5k Heart Walk by inviting participants to take the Grocery Bag Challenge. Participants carried an eight-pound grocery bag for one mile of the walk to raise awareness of the difficulty faced by people without convenient transportation or grocery stores close to home. Participants reported that it was much harder than they expected!
We’re nearing the end of September, which means it is time for Congress to reach resolution on the annual appropriations process. By September 30, Congress must either pass funding bills for the various federal agencies or extend them through a continuing resolution.
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This guest blog post was written by Tiffany Lam, research adviser.
Some schools are experimenting with traffic gardens like the one pictured above. Photo: Fionnuala Quinn/Bureau of Good Roads