Safe Routes to School

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

Notice

We are now offering COVID-19 Grants of up to $1,000 through the Safe Routes to School program. The COVID-19 Grant is a competitive grant that awards funds to nonprofit organizations, Seattle schools, and school-oriented community organizations to provide the services and/or resources necessary to help students stay active and healthy. This grant is offered on a rolling basis. Click here to learn more or apply now!

Please contact belen.herrera@seattle.gov with any questions you may have regarding the COVID-19 Grant applications or agreements.

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.