Transcript Safe Routes to School Walking and Biking Tour
Walking and Biking Audit
What is Safe Routes to School?
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• Safe Routes to School √
is a national movement to: Make it safe, convenient and fun for children to bicycle and walk to school.
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Promote regular physical activity needed for good health.
Safe Routes to School √
Ease traffic jams initiatives help:
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Reduce air pollution Unite neighborhoods
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Foster students’ readiness to learn in school.
Childhood Health and Safe Routes to School
• Prevalence of
overweight
teens has tripled.
children has doubled; • Sharp increase in cases of
type 2 diabetes
children.
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Pedestrian injuries
are the 3 rd leading cause of unintentional injury-related death among children.
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Asthma
rates have increased 160% in the past 15 years in children.
Recording Hazards on Maps
Car blocking sidewalk Missing sidewalks
Using the Camera
1. Write an identifying number on both your map and your camera (same # on each).
2. Write the photo number shown on your camera next to what you took a picture of on the map. (Identify the subject of each photo.)
Car blocking sidewalk
P24
No sidewalk and trash
P23
Missing sidewalks
Hazards to Look For
Other Hazards to Look For
• View of traffic blocked • Inadequate lighting • No traffic signal • No pedestrian signal • • Speed limit not obeyed Abandoned buildings • Areas of known crime • Loose dogs
Make Recommendations
1. Review all observations 2. Make a list of your recommendations next to each street (or on a separate sheet of paper by identifying each street).
Car blocking sidewalk Missing sidewalks
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Recommendations: Educate
Recommendations: Encourage
• • Walking Wednesdays • • "Remote" drop off areas • • Hold Top Ten contests
Parents comments after walking event:
• "It was easier than I thought" • "I'll lead walking school busses" • "I'll be a crossing guard." • "I loved it" • "Just like when I was a kid" • "Great for the community"
Recommendations: Enforce Pace cars aim to slow it down By DAN WHITE
Sentinel staff writer Councilwoman Emily Reilly is daring to drive the speed limit. "Oh, the first month, it was weird," she said of her quest to respect 25 mph zones. "People kept looking at me." Reilly is one of the first guinea pig in a local traffic experiment to get large groups of Santa Cruzans to become official "pace car" drivers. …
Recommendations: Engineer Decreasing the Distance
The Walking and Biking Tour is
a lot like kindergarten; we’re going to:
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Listen and learn.
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Go outside.
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Come in and draw.
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