Children haven’t changed in the past 100 years, but our attitudes about their ability to be independent have.
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In her mission to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries, Ellen Zavisca (transportation planner and Crash Analysis Studio panelist) asks herself, “We’ve got the data. Now what?”
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Residents of Spanish Fork, UT, have raised the alarm about a dangerous stroad where children regularly cross, but local officials refuse to acknowledge the danger until someone gets injured or killed.
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Just like last year, we’re facing a bus driver shortage. Some are asking why our kids can’t just walk, bike, or take public transit to school, but the answer isn’t that simple.
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How do you go from seeing a problem in your city to solving it collectively, and then getting elected to city council? This advocate’s story will show you.
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Sometimes the way to best advocate for change in your city isn’t obvious or easy. And the inertia of the status quo is a challenge all its own.
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School officials in my town claim our neighborhoods are too unsafe for their children to walk to school. Yet the actual key to safety lies in numbers. We need designs that make it so more, not fewer, people will choose to walk.
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The challenge of improving the American public school system is enormous and complex. It's a conversation we need to keep having.
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A new high school is heralded as a model of innovation, but it's part of a depressing trend in modern school planning: isolated facilities on the unwalkable fringe.
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Safe Routes to School is a very popular federal program designed to make is easier for students to walk and bike to school. What if we instead chose to build Schools on Safe Routes?
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Share photos of your children's trip to school with the hashtag #SchoolCommute
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Whether your church is urban, suburban or rural, these 6 ideas can help you promote bikeability in your community.
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While our modern stroad environments discourage children from walking to school, George is fighting back, and helping his daughters gain independence in the process.
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Safe Routes to School is a very popular federal program designed to make is easier for students to walk and bike to school. The amount spent on it, however, is a tiny fraction of what we spend each year building brand new schools.