Oregon Safe Routes to School News
Build it and they will walk (and bike)!
Oregon communities came out in large numbers to express their intent to build sidewalks, crosswalks, bike lanes, and other safety features to help more kids bike and walk to school. One hundred and 40 Letters of Intent (LOI) arrived at ODOT's Active Transportation...
Walking School Bus article in School Bus Fleet News
Thank you to the School Bus Fleet website for covering the launch of our Walking School Bus Program. The program provides meeting points, timetables, and a rotating schedule of trained volunteers to lead the processions. Commute Options said that the volunteer leaders...
SRTS Infrastructure Important Deadline!
The ODOT Safe Routes to School Competitive Infrastructure Grant Program runs in two year cycles with the first round of funds awarded in 2019. Cities, counties, tribes, transit districts, ODOT, and other road authorizes are encouraged to apply for projects that...
Campfire Kids in Central Oregon learn about public transportation
During a recent Campfire summer program middle school students practiced loading and unloading their bikes on a Cascades East Transit bus. The group rode to Hawthorne Station for a real life demo of multi-modal transportation options! Thanks to Bicycle Resource of...
Oregon SRTS Network Annual meeting and training 2018
Sixty SRTS practitioners from all over Oregon came together in Salem to learn about new funding streams, best practices, shared lunch with old and new friends and took home some new tools to get the kids in your neighborhood walking and biking! It was an inspirational...
Safe Routes to School Funding Update
The wait is nearly over! Safe Routes to School Infrastructure program will be gearing up this summer. As part of House Bill 2017, passed in July 2017, the state legislature has newly dedicated funding to build safety projects within one-mile radiuses of schools so...