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
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.
Program Goals
The Safe Routes to School program seeks to:
- Encourage more kids to walk and bike to school
- Improve safety in areas around schools for kids who walk and bike
Current Projects List
- Ashworth Ave N
- 18th Ave SW
- 21st Ave
- Rainier Valley
- Lowell-Meany Greenway & School Safety Project
- Rose Street
- Hamilton Middle School
Completed Projects List
- North Seattle Greenway & School Safety Project
- John Rogers Elementary
- Dearborn Park Elementary
- Wing Luke Elementary
- Rainier View Elementary
- Arbor Heights Elementary
- Sanislo Elementary
- Montlake Elementary
- Aki Kurose Middle School
So You Want To...
Learn about our Racial Equity Analysis
Review Student Travel Survey Reports
Order free walking and biking incentives
Find the best way to walk or bike to your school
Improve your school morning and afternoon traffic
Start a Safe Routes to School campaign at your school
Find out where 20mph beacons are located and when they flash
Understand the what, why, and how of typical school safety projects
Learn about our 5-Year Action Plan