Safe Routes to School

Notice

We are now offering School Streets through the Safe Routes to School program. School Streets are open for people walking, rolling, and biking to school, and closed to pass through traffic, including parents. The goals are to provide social distancing space for daily attestation at school start times, reduce traffic congestion in front of schools, encourage families to walk or bike to school or park a few blocks away and walk. School Streets are provided when requested by schools. Click here to learn more.

What We Do

Safe Routes to School is a national movement to make it easier and safer for students to walk and bike to school. We use a combination of strategies:

Education: ensuring that everyone learns how to travel safely

Encouragement: promoting walking and biking in the school community

Engineering: building projects like new sidewalks, safer crosswalks, and improved streets for biking

Enforcement: partnering with the Seattle Police Department to enforce traffic safety laws

Evaluation: tracking progress toward our shared safety goals

Empowerment: providing resources to school champions

Watch our 48 Hour Film Challenge Videos!

As part of our Safe Routes to School program, we partnered with ReelGrrls to work with high school youth on uplifting their voices and improving our messaging around safety and #VisionZero through our 48 Hour Film Challenge.