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Safe Routes to School
Improving Health, Safety and Transportation
Lenexa, KS
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The need for Safe Routes to School
1. Fewer kids today walk and bike to school
2. Unintended consequences have resulted
3. SRTS programs are part of the solution
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1. Fewer kids are biking and walking. More parents are driving.
2001: 16% walked
1969: 42% walked
(CDC, 2005)
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Parents driving
Parents driving children to school: 20%-25% of morning traffic
(NHTSA 2003; Dept. of Environment)
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What caused the shift?
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School siting issues: A generation ago
Small schools
Located in community centers
(EPA, 2003)
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School siting issues: Today Mega-schools Built on edges of towns and cities
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School consolidation has lengthened the trip between home and school
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Most common barriers to walking and bicycling to school
Long distances 62%
Traffic danger 30%
Adverse weather 19%
Fear of crime danger 12%
Note: Sum of percentages is more than 100% because respondents could identify more than one barrier.
(CDC, 2005)
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Traffic danger
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Adverse weather
Howard’s Grove, WICentreville, VA
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Fear of crime (both real and perceived)
Abandoned buildings
Other reasons
Individual community issues
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2. What are the unintended consequences of less walking and bicycling?
For the environment
For individual health
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Air quality
Measurably better around schools with more walkers and bicyclists
(EPA, 2003)
Chicago, IL
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U.S. youth overweight rates
(National Center for Health Statistics)
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3. Safe Routes to School programs are part of the solution…...to improve
walking and bicycling conditions
...to increase physical activity
...to decrease air pollution Dallas, TX
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More benefits of SRTS programs
Reduce congestion around schools
Can lead to cost savings for schools
Others: increase child’s sense of freedom, help establish lifetime habits, teach pedestrian and bicyclist skills
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Elements of SRTS programs
Education
Encouragement
Enforcement
Engineering
Evaluation
Lenexa, KS
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Education
Imparts safety skills
Creates safety awareness
Fosters life-long safety habits
Includes parents, neighbors and other drivers
Chicago, IL
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Increases popularity of walking and bicycling
Is an easy way to start SRTS programs
Emphasizes fun
Encouragement
Elmhurst, IL
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Enforcement
Increases awareness of pedestrians and bicyclists
Improves driver behavior
Helps children follow traffic rules
Denver, CO
Richmond, VA
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Engineering
Creates safer conditions for walking and bicycling
Can influence the way people behave
West Valley City, UT
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Evaluation
Is the program making a difference?
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Federal Safe Routes to School program
$612 million in U.S.; $10 million in MO 2005-2009 (extension likely)
Funds infrastructure and non-infrastructure activities
MODOT administers SRTS grants in MO
More information:www.saferoutesinfo.org
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State program
Missouri Safe Routes to School Program
John Schaefer, State CoordinatorMODOT Highway Safety Division
(573) [email protected]
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Safe Routes to School goals
Where it’s safe, get children walking and biking
Where it’s not safe, make changes
Winston-Salem, NC
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www.saferoutesinfo.org