Oregon Safe Routes to School News
Planning Safe Routes for the 2022-23′ school year
The 2022-23 school year is about to begin! A new school year is a great time to help students change habits and start walking and rolling to school. Starting safe routes programming in your community can feel daunting, but the ODOT SRTS team has resources to help!...
ODOT SRTS Announces grantees
The Oregon Department of Transportation Safe Routes to School Program is excited to announce that several communities throughout Oregon have been awarded grant funds and planning assistance to support their efforts encouraging safe options for students to get to...
ODOT SRTS Train the Trainer Program
Around the state, students walk and roll to the places they need to go daily. Giving them the skills to do so appropriately is an important part of every Safe Routes program. While many educators would like to provide bicycle and pedestrian safety education in their...
Bicycle Safety Education at McGovern Elementary
Learning how to properly ride a bicycle is an important skill, and one that can enrich a young person's life by giving them a new outlet for exercise, freedom to take trips easily, and experience commuting via different modes. At McGovern Elementary School, in...
Oregon celebrates Winter Walk+Roll to School Day
Students around Oregon celebrated Winter Walk+Roll to School Day on February 23rd, 2022, showing that walking and rolling to school is fun to do all year long. A Commute Options volunteer walks with Bear Creek Elementary Walking School Bus students on Winter Walk+Roll...
Resources for Indigenous Land Acknowledgements
Our March statewide webinar (3/15 from 11am-12pm) invites Safe Routes to School advocates throughout Oregon to consider not only the opportunities and challenges of SRTS programming on Tribal lands, but to recognize and honor the ancestral Indigenous land in Oregon...