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Healthy Transportation Network kickoff

TransForm and the Safe Routes to School National Partnership are kicking off a powerful new collaboration of advocates like you, health professionals, and planning experts: the Healthy Transportation Network. The Network's goal is to shape big, pivotal transportation decisions in the Bay Area so they yield healthy outcomes for all.

They want you to join the Network!

Get plugged into the Healthy Transportation Network at the kickoff on Wednesday, February 15 from 9:00 to 10:00 am.

New look, familiar challenges

You probably noticed the re-do of our website. It is still a work in progress, causing us all various degrees of frustration, including for our web developer, who is working hard to get it finished. It is going to be great when it is finished. In addition to the redesign, which is a lot in itself, we moved to a new host. This will be better in the long run, as our former long-time host caused various problems and breakdowns from time to time.

The future of transportation is here

February 1, 2012 - 12:06pm -- Visitor

This timely blog just in from SVBC Board of Directors member Ian Dewar. Listen up and act fast!

The Future of transportation is here… and it does not look good for cyclists.

On Thursday Feb 2nd, the House Transportation committee will take the first vote on the new transportation bill called the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act. This bill shockingly eliminates all federal funding for biking and walking. This is a $260 billion bill that will support all federally funded transportation programs for the next five years. Not only has the bill removed mention to key cycling projects, it actively eliminates programs that most cycling funding comes from, including Safe Routes to School and the Transportation Enhancements program.

Action Alert: Contact your Representative to save biking and walking funding TODAY

January 26, 2012 - 11:15am -- colin

Our friends at the Safe Routes to School National Partnership are looking to California bicycle advocates to help them in their fight to keep biking and walking funded at the federal level. They need your help!

Next Thursday, February 2, the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee will vote on the House transportation bill, which will eliminate crucial funds for bicycling and walking.

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Action Alert: Protect SRTS and bike/ped funding in the Federal Transportation Bill

January 11, 2012 - 10:41am -- colin

Our colleagues at the Safe Routes to School National Partnership are making a special push in California this week, and they need you to contact your State Assembly and Senate Members TODAY.

ACTION ALERT

  • -Contact your California State Assembly and Senate Members this Week.
  • -Ask Them to Sign-On to a California Letter to Senator Boxer urging her to protect Safe Routes to School and bike/ped funding in the Federal Transportation Bill.

California Friends of Safe Routes to School,

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Safe Routes to School initiatives are coming to East Palo Alto

December 14, 2011 - 3:49pm -- ernesto

As you all may have heard, we are extremely excited about partnering with the San Mateo County Office of Education to implement Safe Routes to School programs at eleven schools in East Palo Alto’s Ravenswood City School District. The program will focus on promoting safety for all students and parents while they travel to and from school, whether they’re walking, bicycling or driving. But of course you know we’ll be encouraging as much walking as bicycling as possible.

Safe Routes to School comes to Ravenswood City School District

December 7, 2011 - 2:54pm -- colin

SVBC is happy to announce that we are beginning work on a Safe Routes to School program in Ravenswood City School District, which includes schools from both East Palo Alto and Menlo Park in San Mateo County. The San Mateo County Office of Education was inspired in part by the September death of a six-year-old girl in a crosswalk in East Palo Alto and has planned a two-year program to make walking and biking to school safe for Ravenswood students.

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Bicycles are tamed at youth bike rodeo

October 20, 2011 - 12:58pm -- ernesto


On October 12, nearly two hundred students took part in a bike rodeo at Anne Darling Elementary School, where they learned how to ride their bikes safely by participating in four bicycling courses. Over a dozen volunteers helped teach students how to make right turns, left turns, exit out of a driveway, scan and look over their shoulder, and properly fit a helmet. All of this is part of the month-long Walk and Bike to School program in which hundreds of students at this school are participating.

Safe Routes to School goes big time in Silicon Valley

September 1, 2011 - 11:41am -- corinne

A couple of years ago, SVBC joined together with assorted regional advocates to encourage MTC to create a Safe Routes to Schools funding stream to help get communities up and running with Safe Routes programs. We were successful--as a result, VTA received $4.039M and C/CAG received $1.429 (the money was distributed relative to population).

Volunteers needed to conduct Safe Routes to School assessments

August 23, 2011 - 11:03am -- ernesto

SVBC and Traffic Safe Communities Network (TSCN) of the Santa Clara County Public Health Department are looking for volunteers to help evaluate and assess motor vehicle, pedestrian, and bicycling behaviors in elementary and middle schools throughout Santa Clara County. These assessments will be conducted during the 2011/2012 school year.

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Action alert: Safe Routes to School needs your support

April 15, 2011 - 12:00pm -- colin

Act now to Ask your Senators to support the Safe Routes to School bill!

This week, twelve Senators - led by Senators Harkin (D-IA), Sanders (D-VT), and Merkley (D-OR) introduced legislation (S. 800) to sustain
and strengthen the federal Safe Routes to School program. Congress is looking to scale back transportation spending - so it's critical that we send a strong message that the federal Safe Routes to School program should be preserved. Please take a few minutes to do two simple things to build Senate support for Safe Routes to School:

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