Portland Transportation: Safe Routes to School Program

What can I do with my school or neighborhood?

Encourage your kids to develop and sustain active, healthy lifestyles.
Understand and support a SR2S program in your school.
Contact your school principal. Share your traffic safety concerns and interest in developing a SR2S plan.
Ask your school principal to help form a School Safety or SR2S Committee.
Make SR2S the subject of a PTA or School Site Council meeting.
Invite community representatives who might partner with you.
Participate in a "walking school bus."

Get excited about being active and making your neighborhood a great place to move around.
Question your travel choices . . . could I walk, bike, or go by transit?
Get out of cars and onto your feet and bikes!
Tell your principal and teachers that you’d like your school to develop a SR2S plan.
Participate in a Walk to School Day or Bike to School Challenge event.
Learn and practice safe pedestrian, bicycle, and transit behaviors.

By getting involved, you can enable and encourage young people to question their travel choices and to develop healthy and sustainable lifestyles.
Your school can be a community partner in the effort to make our neighborhoods more livable and our youth safer and healthier.
See the Resources page for web sites about successful programs in the U.S.

Understand and support a SR2S program in your neighborhood school.
Contact your neighborhood school principal. Share your traffic safety concerns and interest in developing a SR2S plan.
Ask your neighborhood school principal to help form a School Safety or SR2S Committee.
Make SR2S the subject of a Neighborhood Association meeting.
Bring the school community’s attention to issues surrounding the journey to school.
Influence changes to school policy around travel, physical activity, and food.
Support education initiatives within the school.