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Safe Routes to Groceries in Cleveland’s AsiaTown

In winter 2017, our team got a question: “Have you ever looked at how people can walk to and from grocery stores from senior centers? Maybe Safe Routes to Grocery Stores?” We were thrilled. We had been working for the past year to refine a concept called Safe Routes to Healthy Food, which works to overcome the barriers to walking, biking, and taking public transportation to places where people get healthy foods. This was a chance to dive in to see how the challenges and solutions we’d been exploring played out in a real neighborhood. Asian Services in Action, Inc.

Building Parks is Not Enough

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Safe Routes to Parks is a national framework for ensuring that people can walk, bike or roll to a park or greenspace in a way that is appealing and safe from traffic and personal danger. Photo Naim Hasan Photography

Shuster Proposal Sets Stage for Transportation Reauthorization
Earlier this week, Rep. Shuster (R-PA), the current chair of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, released an Infrastructure Discussion Draft. He is hoping it will prompt discussion on how to address the continual shortfall of funding in the Highway Trust Fund.
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Safe Routes to Parks Walk Audit Toolkit

This toolkit can help communities and residents participate to make their vision of healthy, safe, walkable streets to parks real.

States Buckle Down on Spending TAP; Some States Risk Losing Funds

Each quarter, we take a look at state progress with implementing the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP). For the quarter covering April to June 2018, states obligated nearly $131 million in TAP funding, with all states except for three making forward progress. (Obligation means that the state DOT has committed funding to a local TAP project and is a key step towards actually getting the project built or implemented.)

It Doesn't Take as Long as You'd Think!
According to a recent study from Penn State, most people say they don’t walk or bike to work because they don’t have time and that it would just take too long. The same study debunks that claim!
State Report Cards: A Tool to Improve TAP in Your State

Last month, the Safe Routes Partnership released the 2018 version of Making Strides: State Report Cards on Support for Walking, Bicycling, and Active Kids and Communities. The report cards rank states on their policy approaches on a range of areas, including Complete Streets, school siting, physical activity planning, and more.

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Urban development patterns and exposure to hazardous and protective traffic environments

Key takeaway:

  • This study reinforces previous findings that people of racial/ethnic minorities and people of lower socioeconomic status in the US are systematically linked to higher exposure to traffic and related health risks (i.e., air pollution, noise pollution, traffic injuries and fatalities, etc.). 
Families Belong Together
As an organization that is devoted to healthy kids and healthy places, we have been appalled by the intentional separation of children from their families at our country’s southern border and the ongoing mass detention of migrant families.
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Public health sector influence in transportation decision-making: The case of health impact assessment

Key takeaways:

  • Health impact assessment (HIA) has been an entry point for the public health profession to be influential in transportation decisions. The future of HIA practice in transportation could build on HIA’s adaptability to local decision-making contexts and embrace its ways to informally influence policy.
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Walking (and cycling) to well-being: Modal and other determinants of subjective well-being during the commute

Key takeaway:

  • People with active commutes experienced better health, confidence, and positive affect. Cycling commuters experienced less security and more distress and fear than walking commuters. 
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Percentage of Deaths Associated With Inadequate Physical Activity in the United States

Key takeaway:

  • A significant portion of adult deaths in the United States is attributed to inadequate levels of physical activity. Increasing adults’ physical activity levels to meet current guidelines can help reduce the risk of premature death.
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It’s Parks and Recreation Month! What does that mean for Safe Routes to School practitioners and active transportation advocates?

July is Park and Recreation Month! Walkable, bikeable park access means double the opportunity for physical activity – on the way to the park and within it! 

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Making Strides: 2018 State Report Cards on Support for Walking, Bicycling, and Active Kids and Communities
2018 State Report Cards

We’ve developed state report cards that provide a snapshot of how supportive each state is of walking, bicycling, and physical activity for children and adults as of 2018.

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How to Use Your State's Report Card on Walking, Biking, and Physical Activity

This fact sheet provides tips on how to use your state's report card.

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Making Strides: Understanding the Scores and Grading

This fact sheet provides a quick summary of the report cards' scoring structure, including the indicators and possible points in each of the core topic areas and an example report card showing the different components.

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Engaging Students with Disabilities in Safe Routes to School

A new infobrief provides information for Safe Routes to School staff, volunteers, or program leaders on how to plan and develop a program that considers and meets the needs of students with disabilities.

Black Bodies Hit the Floor; Blue Hands Pull the Trigger

The use of policing as a way to keep Black and Brown people under control is not new. Policing has long been used as a way to uphold racial segregation and to keep Black, Brown, Indigenous and other people of color in check. Policing has been applied as a way to keep white people seemingly safe and separate from ‘the other.’

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2018 State Report Cards
Making Strides: State Report Cards on Support for Walking, Bicycling, and Active Kids and Communities

We’ve developed state report cards which provide a snapshot of how supportive each state is of walking, bicycling, and physical activity for children and adults as of 2018. 

Community Key in Thriving SRTS Program in Central Alabama

The United Way of Central Alabama started work on Safe Routes to School as part of a pilot where community members identified student safety and walkability high on their list of priorities. After funding in 2012 through RWJF Healthy Kids Healthy Communities and the CDC Communities Putting Prevention to Work initiatives, they rolled out a walking school bus program and support other bicycle and pedestrian education and advocacy efforts.