Why????

My bike camera is mounted almost 3' off the ground. There is zero reason for a vehicle this size to exist, much less to roam neighborhood streets while kids are out walking & biking to school.

#SafeStreetsForAll #BikeToSchool #WalkToSchool #oversizedvehicles #Trucks #VisionZero #BikeTooter

This is a very welcome 2023 annual report from the #SeattlePublicSchools Traffic Safety Committee with excellent progress and recommendations. Thanks to the committee esp. to @ME_Russell #WalkToSchool #BikeToSchool #Seattle #SeattleNews https://seattle.gov/documents/Departments/SDOT/BoardsCommittees/STSC/Seattle%20school%20traffic%20safety%20committee_AnnualReport_2023_ADA.pdf

More of this!

RTE news : How car-free urban greenways support local communities

#Greenway #ActiveTravel #CycleToSchool #WalkToSchool

http://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/0531/1386622-castletroy-limerick-urban-greenway-health-transport-community-benefits/

"Half (50%) of primary school pupils live a mile or less from school and of these, almost half were driven to school by car and 48% walked to school."

I am astonished this is not getting headlines. It takes 20 minutes to walk a mile. We are in the midst of an obesity and climate crisis, and it seems not driving such short distances might be part of the solution to both.

#WalkToSchool #BikeToSchool #ObesityCrisis #ClimateBreakdown

More details: https://www.infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/news/statistical-press-release-travel-and-school-by-children-northern-ireland-202122​

Have you seen this one? Before & after of a brain after a 20 minute walk — illustrates why walking to work, or school, or just to get the intellectual juices flowing, has been strongly linked to better creative & intellectual performance.
Just one of MANY benefits of choosing to walk, for you and for society.
Design and build walkable cities.
#walking #cities #urbanism #WalkableCities #WalkToSchool #WalkToWork #city #cars

Have you seen this one? Before & after of a brain after a 20 minute walk — illustrates why walking to work, or school, or just to get the intellectual juices flowing, has been strongly linked to better creative & intellectual performance.

Just one of MANY benefits of choosing to walk, for you and for society.

Design walkable cities.

#walking #cities #urbanism #WalkableCities #WalkToSchool #WalkToWork #city #cars

Over on *that* site, local #NI news report how children here are the least physically active in Europe. Precisely 0% cycle to school, and the number of pupils walking has gone down year on year for more than a decade. The majority of primary school pupils are driven.

But is any surprise when our roads are the way they are, putting drivers and their vehicles first?

#WalkToSchool #CycleToSchool #ActiveTravel #SustransNI
https://twitter.com/bbcnewsline/status/1602396697774129162?t=oM-zQv9cwe1X9f7JsNt-Bw&s=09

RT @livingstreets@twitter.com

A = audit of streets

We work with local people in Community Street Audits to identify improvements to make local streets more walkable.

School Route Audits see pupils make suggestions that would make it easier for them to #WalkToSchool.

#WalkingAtoZ

https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/news-and-blog/press-media/calderdale-pupils-set-on-making-the-walk-to-school-safer

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/livingstreets/status/1592091219282247680

@stakeholdersSGV has a deep commitment to the #SafeRoutes #Partnership, plus #WalkToSchool and #BikeToSchool.

#SAFE = Socially-connected, Active, Future for Everyone.
#Connecting #kids to #learning, to #health, and to each other in the #Community

Join #children, #parents & adults around the world to celebrate the benefits of #walking & #bicycling.

Join the #coalition of people with #disabilities, or #ADA, #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct

#access #equity #health

https://stakeholderssgv.com/safe-routes/

This captures my feelings about #WalkToSchool day parades very well. Parades are fun, but the real measure of success is whether kids walk to school the next day, or any other day. https://triangleblogblog.com/2022/10/27/how-national-walk-and-bike-to-school-day-can-be-improved-in-carrboro-and-chapel-hill/