NorthShoreSRA

Safe Routes Advocates. Safe routes to school, active transportation initiatives, and sustainable transportation infrastructure.

[Kent Hamilton @MrHamiltonPE]

A special moment this morning! Instead of riding the bus or driving, over 175 of our students and families joined our #BikeBus today to get to school. To make the morning even better, yard signs and posters with positive messages greeted the students as they rode by! 🚲🏡

[Mayor Olivia Chow 🇨🇦 @MayorOliviaChow]

While we start a new school year, we must remember our responsibility to make trips to and from school safe and secure. I am committed to ensuring that all vulnerable road users are protected by better design, and can move around this city safely.

Much more to do.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“Currently about 2/3rds of all Dutch children walk or bike to school, with 75% of secondary school kids cycling to school. By enabling safe and active travel, Dutch cities prevent an estimated one million car journeys to school each morning.” — @modacitylife in #CurbingTraffic

[NorthShoreSRA @NorthShoreSRA]

#BikeToSchool #NorthVan

[London Bicycle Café @LdnOntBikeCafe]

“Kids who cycled or walked to school, rather than traveling by car or public transportation, performed measurably better on tasks demanding concentration, such as solving puzzles, and that the effects lasted for up to four hours after they got to school.”

https://t.co/7JWd3WA9f4

[Matt Dell @mattdellok]

A huge number of children are addicted to screens and not able to independently explore their neighbourhood due to excessive vehicle speed and poor urban design. It’s a crisis that no one is talking about. I’m not surprised that teachers are seeing this trend. We can change this!

[NorthShoreSRA @NorthShoreSRA]

@Covid_Stinks @JohnsonStBRDG Y’all are really the dumbest fucking people. Hands down.

[Active School Travel Canada @ActiveSchoolTC]

The Public Health Agency of Canada recently released a report of the rates of Active School Travel across Canada based on data collected in the 2017/18 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study.

Overall results:

22% walk
4% bike
74% use motorized transport

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[Lenore Skenazy @FreeRangeKids]

Still STUNNED by how our culture has managed to "dangerize" things as simple & safe as a 9-y.o. walking a quarter mile home in the 'burbs.

Here's today's ethics qu about it in @NYTimes. Grandma wants to HIRE A CHAPERONE for the .25 mile. Thoughts?

https://t.co/QeXaVJSuiD

[Richard Wittstock @rwittstock]

Great. But we need more safe school streets too. Local roads within 250m of a school should be closed to cars 8-9 and 2:30-4:00 M-F, with a network of separated bike lanes radiating out from every school.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Children riding their bicycles to school on Fridays in Barcelona, Spain

[NorthShoreSRA @NorthShoreSRA]

#BikeToSchool #NorthVan

[Kaarin Praxel Austin @kaarinpraxel]

Can somebody please explain the mentality of of valet pickup at elementary school? Why? Why subject yourself to that when you can park a block away and walk and not wait 20 minutes?

[JenniferReddy @reddyforchange]

walking to school with friends & neighbours - @christineeboyle walks with her kid & a friend’s kid to school every morning - when we have #neighbourhoodschools we build community #vanpoli #bced #39reasons why I care about school district 39

[NorthShoreSRA @NorthShoreSRA]

#BikeToSchool #NorthVan

[Sam Balto @CoachBalto]

This is your weekly reminder that a radical transformation to student transportation is coming. Alameda Elementary #BikeBus passed 30% student participation!!! (Volume up)

[NorthShoreSRA @NorthShoreSRA]

#WalkToSchool #BikeToSchool

[NorthShoreSRA @NorthShoreSRA]

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[Mary Pustejovsky (@[email protected]) @mpusto]

The preschool pick up scene