Safe Routes to School Walking and Biking Tour

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Walking and Biking Audit
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What is Safe Routes to School?

• Safe Routes to School is a national movement
  to
• v Make it safe, convenient and fun for children
• to bicycle and walk to school.
• v Promote regular physical activity needed for
• good health.
• Safe Routes to School initiatives help
• v Ease traffic jams
• v Reduce air pollution
• v Unite neighborhoods
• v Foster students readiness to learn in
  school.

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Childhood Health and Safe Routes to School

• Prevalence of overweight children has doubled
  teens has tripled.
• Sharp increase in cases of type 2 diabetes in
  children.
• Pedestrian injuries are the 3rd leading cause of
  unintentional injury-related death among
  children.
• Asthma rates have increased 160 in the past 15
  years in children.

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Recording Hazards on Maps
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Using the Camera

• Write an identifying number on both your map and
  your camera (same on each).
• Write the photo number shown on your camera next
  to what you took a picture of on the map.
  (Identify the subject of each photo.)

P24
No sidewalk and trash
P23
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Hazards to Look For
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Other Hazards to Look For

• View of traffic blocked
• Inadequate lighting
• No traffic signal
• No pedestrian signal
• Speed limit not obeyed
• Abandoned buildings
• Areas of known crime
• Loose dogs

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Make Recommendations

1. Review all observations

1. Make a list of your recommendations next to each
   street (or on a separate sheet of paper by
   identifying each street).

Car blocking sidewalk
Missing sidewalks
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Recommendations Educate








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Recommendations Encourage

• Walking Wednesdays
• "Remote" drop off areas
• Hold Top Ten contests

• Parents comments after walking event
• "It was easier than I thought"
• "I'll lead walking school busses"
• "I'll be a crossing guard."
• "I loved it"
• "Just like when I was a kid"
• "Great for the community"

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Recommendations Enforce
Pace cars aim to slow it down By DAN
WHITESentinel staff writer Councilwoman Emily
Reilly is daring to drive the speed limit. "Oh,
the first month, it was weird," she said of her
quest to respect 25 mph zones. "People kept
looking at me." Reilly is one of the first
guinea pig in a local traffic experiment to get
large groups of Santa Cruzans to become official
"pace car" drivers.
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Recommendations Engineer Decreasing the Distance
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The Walking and Biking Tour is a lot like
kindergarten were going to

• Listen and learn.
• Go outside.
• Come in and draw.
• Have circle time.
• Have fun and be nice!