Submitted on Tue, 2013-05-14 11:37 by Dave Cowan
Ever find yourself banging your head against the wall trying to advance a Safe Routes to School program across multiple schools or even an entire district? Worry not; there are plenty of other goose-egged foreheads (and dented walls) across the country that are in your same shoes.
Submitted on Thu, 2013-04-18 17:54 by Dave Cowan
Engaging local elected officials is not a new component of Safe Routes to School – in fact, it has been an integral part of the process since the inception of Safe Routes to School programs and projects.
Submitted on Mon, 2013-03-11 13:25 by Dave Cowan
Safe Routes to School has the amazing capacity to stretch its boundaries across the fields of health, transportation, safety, environment and more. This elasticity is an enormous advantage in terms of marketing the benefits of walking and bicycling to and from school as an effective approach to addressing major issues in all fields.
Submitted on Fri, 2013-01-11 13:26 by Dave Cowan
Moments ago I finished facilitating a webinar on regional approaches to Safe Routes to School through Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOS). The jargon involved even when clearly presenting on this topic would send even the most hardened Safe Routes to School practitioner running in the other direction. Yet, this is the point.
Submitted on Fri, 2012-10-12 08:07 by Dave Cowan
In Safe Routes to School we see countless examples of elementary schools led by passionate adults and fanatical students that knock walking and bicycling out of the proverbial park – but, as a movement, I believe we struggle to connect as frequently and in meaningful ways around active transportation with both middle and high school age students.
Submitted on Fri, 2012-09-28 08:12 by Dave Cowan
There is a scene, from a once famous movie where this guy busts through the door to expel his undying affection for a woman. She completes him, and he wants to make sure she knows it.
I’m no Tom Cruise, but I want you to know: You complete me.
Submitted on Fri, 2012-08-10 15:42 by Dave Cowan
Submitted on Fri, 2012-07-20 15:13 by Dave Cowan
Change is inevitable, it is said. It is how we choose to adapt to this change that is central in the New York Times bestseller “Who Moved My Cheese?” that eloquently describes our instinctual response to change through a parable about two mice and two mini-people whose cheese supply has been moved.
Submitted on Thu, 2012-06-14 14:27 by Dave Cowan
Please excuse the divergence from our regularly scheduled content. You see, between the time I wrote my last blog and the publishing of this blog my family has grown by one precious little girl, Madeline Mae Cowan (who, incidentally, has already expressed to me her deep and unwavering passion for walking and bicycling to school).
Submitted on Thu, 2012-05-10 14:32 by Dave Cowan
For the past two weeks veteran and budding bicyclists around the country have been peddling the joys of pedaling by participating in the