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Safe Routes to Schools

Safe Routes to Schools Alameda County logoA Comprehensive Approach to Creating Healthier Kids and Communities

  • Explore the menu at the right to learn all about where and how we work - and get involved!
  • For more information about starting a SR2S program at your school, contact Nora Cody.
  • Find out if your school is already participating here.
  • To sign up to receive Safe Routes to Schools' newsletter, contact Seth Goddard.

Safe Routes to Schools (SR2S) is a comprehensive, proven approach to getting more kids walking and biking safely to school.  It gives kids and parents skills, encouragement, and inspiration through a range of activities, events, and lessons, while also addressing local pedestrian and personal safety concerns.

With its focus on fun and safety, kids and parents alike love SR2S.

Schools think SR2S is great: it reduces congestion around schools, involves parents and teachers, and means that more kids arrive at school energized and ready to learn.

Neighbors and community members love SR2S too, for the improvements it brings to pedestrian and biking infrastructure, reduced traffic and air pollution, and the sense of community it builds.

TransForm and the Safe Routes to Schools Alameda County Partnership

TransForm, a champion for making it easier and safer for people to walk and bike places, started an urban pilot project of the Safe Routes to Schools program (SR2S) in 2006 in Oakland, modeled after the hugely-successful Marin County Safe Routes to Schools program.

This fledgling effort has grown into the Safe Routes to Schools Alameda County Partnership. Led by TransForm, the Partnership includes the Alameda County Public Health Department, Cycles of Change, and many other local agencies and organizations.

Together, the SR2S Alameda County Partnership is now reaching tens of thousands of students at more than 50 Alameda County public elementary schools.

The Safe Routes to Schools Program is funded in part with a major grant from Measure B (Alameda County's half-cent transportation sales tax, administered by ACTIA).