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  Fact Sheet

This fact sheet invites non-profit organizations, community-based organizations (CBOs), and advocates to think through multiple perspectives on how unhoused people resting, living, and gathering in parks affects overall park access and use compassionately and practically.

  Fact Sheet

This factsheet offers an overview of how active transportation and parks and recreation are typically funded. 

  Fact Sheet

This factsheet offers strategies to move existing funding toward improving safe and equitable park access and the partnerships that can help facilitate both funding and implementation.

  Fact Sheet

Infrastructure for walking and biking can be seriously expensive. This fact sheet tells the story of two cities’ approach to paying for parks and connections to green space: general obligation bonds. 

  Fact Sheet

Use this guide and template to create your own evaluation table to outline your project goals, objectives and metrics.

  Fact Sheet

This resource focuses specifically on funding infrastructure (physical improvements), but some of these funding resources can also pay for non-construction phases that make infrastructure possible like conducting traffic studies and installing drainage to manage storm water.

  Fact Sheet

This factsheet offers evaluation techniques for all phases of safe routes efforts as well as how and when they can be most useful so that you can incorporate evaluation from the beginning, rather than solely at the end.

  Webinar

On Wednesday, November 17th 3-4pm Eastern, the Safe Routes Partnership is hosting a free webinar:

Safe Routes Back to School 2021 Zoom Session

November 17, 2021, 3-4pm Eastern

  Fact Sheet

Parks advocates and Safe Routes to School practitioners alike can use this fact sheet for ideas on tying Safe Routes to Parks activities into their Walk to School Day events and keeping up the momentum beyond October.

  Webinar

On Thursday, October 14th at 3:00 PM Eastern/12:00 PM Pacific Safe Routes Partnership is hosting a free one-hour webinar:

  Research

Key takeaways:

  • Riding a bicycle is a concrete way for children to participate in climate action. Participation in an everyday activity that makes a difference is ‘constructive hope’.
  • Children who live in low-traffic neighborhoods are more likely to engage in activities like walking and biking, leading to more social interaction, exposure to nature, and outdoor play; all of which create feelings of connection to the environment. Active transportation is a way for children to feel invested in protecting this connection.
  • Children who live in high-traffic neighborhoods spend more time indoors, have fewer opportunities to make friends, and experience independent social connections. They are less likely to walk or bike due to traffic concerns. This contributes to negative feelings about their neighborhoods.
  • A common objection to children biking is based on unsafe roads. Streets are built for cars. Traffic is intimidating and poses risk, leading to perceptions of unsafety. Yet injury rates do not reflect this perception as a reality.
  • The many gains of children bicycling outweigh the risk of injury. Active transportation also aids in the development of self-esteem, independence, self-efficacy, and spatial navigation skills.

In August, we sent a link to the Safe Routes to School community to ask questions about federal policy related to walking, bicycling, and Safe Routes to School and committed to answering them here on the blog. Do you have questions? Submit them here.

Questions are italicized. Answers are bulleted below.

“How does your analysis on Aug 10 jibe with DeFazio’s work?”

After a busy spring and summer working on legislation to reauthorize surface transportation spending, Congress is staring down a September 30th expiration date for current funding. Congress must reauthorize transportation spending or pass a short-term extension in order to maintain funding for transportation. Where things currently stand:

  Toolkit

Bicycle Safer Journey helps educators, parents and others who care about bicycle safety to get the conversation started with children and youth. 

  Toolkit

This promotional toolkit can be used to dissimenate the report, Investing in Health, Safety, and Mobility: A Report on State Funding for Walking, Bicycling, and Safe Routes to School - Promotional Toolkit.

  Evaluation, Report
Creating Momentum for Community Improvements

Community level strategies to promote physical activity have the potential to improve health and well-being. This report provides evidence and an analysis on the benefits of promoting active travel to school for children of all ages.

  Toolkit

This toolkit includes communications resources, content and collateral that you can customize and share to get more schools, parents and students involved. We encourage you to use them in your outreach and campaigns.

  Toolkit

This toolkit provides great step-by-step instructions on how to create and plan your own traffic playground.

  Toolkit, Website

BikeNWA believes that learning to ride a bike in a positive, safe and fun environment is key to becoming a happy and healthy life-long rider. Let’s Play BikesNWA is a free three-part guide to help parents to facilitate learning in a simple, fun and low-stress way.