While you walk and roll in your immediate neighborhood, King County Metro encourages you and your family to limit the spread of COVID-19 by following public health recommendations. Use these tips to help keep you and others safe:
A calendar to keep you healthy with activities for you every day.
The Bus Stop and Walk (BSW) program takes Safe Routes to School to another level by ensuring that every student is provided the opportunity to walk to school.
On Monday, July 19th from 2pm – 3pm PT, the Safe Routes Partnership is hosting a free webinar:
ATP Webinar Series #1
July 19th, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Pacific
Street Story is a community engagement tool that allows residents, community groups and agencies to collect information about transportation collisions, near-misses, general hazards and safe locations to travel. Street Story is free to use and publicly accessible.
Walk [Your City] helps you boost your community’s walkability, linking informational street signs for people with web-based campaign management and data collection to complement traditional approaches to wayfinding.
This new resource outlines roles of different partners and opportunities for collaboration. It can be used as a guide in developing a task force or engaging with an existing group of agencies and community partners to support your Safe Routes to School program.
We have all experienced individual and collective trauma this year, and the effects of that trauma will likely last well into the future. Prolonged isolation, fear, financial insecurity, sickness, police brutality, and harassment are only some of the complex issues that kids faced this year, especially kids of color, disabled kids, and kids from lower-income families.
On Tuesday, August 4th, from 2-3 pm Eastern, the Safe Routes Partnership is hosting a free webinar:
Safe Routes Back 2 School 2021 Zoom Session #2
August 4, 2021, 2-3 pm Eastern
It has now been about a year and half since the world turned upside down; a year since the renewed call for racial justice shook cities across the United States and the world. As we near the end of shutdowns, masks, and social distancing, we can’t go back to “normal.” The world has changed— we have all changed. We have to move toward what’s next. The good news is that what’s next can be determined by everyday people making and advocating for small improvements to make their communities more equitable, healthy, and safe.
This promotional toolkit can be used to disseminate the visual storyboard "Why Safe Routes to Parks: Stories, Data, and Resources to Illustrate the Mission."
Last week the House of Representatives passed a five-year, $715 billion dollar transportation reauthorization bill called the INVEST in America Act. The bill includes significant increases in funding for Safe Routes to School, and reinstates the requirement for each state to have a full time Safe Routes to School Coordinator. On a broader level, it also increases funding for bicycling and walking overall, and has a stronger focus on Complete Streets and safety for vulnerable road users.
On this page is a collection of remote learning resources that can be viewed anywhere and anytime!
To select and properly fit a bicycle helmet, follow the helmet fitting instructions in this flyer.
Digital library of resources for bikers and pedestrians.
Safe Routes to School programs make walking and bicycling to school safer and more accessible for children, including those with disabilities, and increase the number of children who choose to walk and bicycle. Safe Routes to School programs can benefit communities by enhancing children’s health and safety, well-being, and academic performance.
Our virtual lesson includes five simple activities about sidewalks, crosswalks, and street design. These lessons are designed for youths from 5-14 years of age.
Safety presentation worksheets for ages 5-9 and 10+ on the bike, walk, and E-scooters safety
The University of Miami WalkSafe program is a pediatric injury prevention program working directly with public schools through our free 3-day educational curriculum and safety resources.