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Program Highlight: Remote Drop-offs

While remote drop-offs are a program component that can be used year-round, they can be especially effective in encouraging students to walk, bike, or roll to school in the winter months! Michigan’s snowy and cold winter months often reduce active transportation to and from school. As a result, arrival and dismissal traffic can increase. This creates potentially unsafe situations for students who [...]

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2025 Community Spark Grants

With generous support from General Motors (GM), the League of American Bicyclists is delighted to announce its fourth year of Community Spark Grants to support the growing number of local grassroots changemakers and organizations across the country working to improve their communities through bicycling. The League’s Bicycle Friendly America program will award Community Spark Grants, of $2,000 each, to 10 organizations

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2024 SRTS National Conference Summary

Our team joined over 400 volunteers, educators, and supporters at the 2024 National Safe Routes to School Conference in Fort Collins, Colorado this past October. This was the first in-person event hosted by the Safe Routes Partnership since 2019. Fort Collins is a Platinum-level Bicycle Friendly Community. This made it possible for the conference team

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Graphic of a road with lots of car, taxi, school bus, bike, moped, and walk activity. A plane, trees, school, metro, wind turbines, and skyline are in the background. The text reads "Get Going, Go Green!"

Nationwide Student Contests

The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) has launched a nationwide contest for students with the theme "Let’s Get Going, Go Green, and build a better transportation future for all". The theme addresses climate change and the ways to mitigate it through alternative transportation methods like walking, biking, taking the bus, and using electric vehicles.  The Elementary Poster Contest invites students in grades 1-6 to share their

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Students and parents walk along a zebra stripped street crossing in the dim of morning with car lights shining on them. Text is the Safe Routes to School logo on top and "Fall Back Safety" at the bottom.

Return to Standard Time

As the clocks “fall back” to standard time on Sunday, Nov. 3, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) and the Michigan Fitness Foundation remind motorists to watch out for people traveling on foot or rolling, like on a bicycle, wheelchair, skateboard, or other personal device, each evening on the drive home. Motorists also should allow

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SRTS Intern Posting

We are hiring a Safe Routes to School Intern who will support the daily operations of Michigan Safe Routes to School at Michigan Fitness Foundation. The person in this paid position will gain experience by assisting with communications, events, grants, surveys, training and outreach, and school-based bike/pedestrian infrastructure planning to increase walking, biking, and rolling to

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Walk and Roll to School Day 2024

National Walk & Roll to School Day (WR2SD) is an international event to promote walking and rolling to school. This year, it takes place on Wednesday, October 9. Schools and communities unable to join the national celebration on October 9 are welcome to host an event on any date that works in October. We invite everyone,

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Student using new crossing and light improvement in front of St. Patrick Catholic School

October is Pedestrian Safety Month

October is Pedestrian Safety Month and a great opportunity to promote pedestrian safety messaging. Whether our primary transportation method is as pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, etc., it is important to remind one another that road safety is a shared responsibility. Sample Safety Messages: All drivers should be mindful of pedestrians crossing the road and must yield

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