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Braving Double-Parked Parents, MS 51 Students Bike to School in Droves

By Noah Kazis | May 23, 2012 | 15 Comments

Based on this picture of rows of temporary bike racks, all filled, it looks like MS 51’s Bike-To-School Day was a big hit (photo via Lara Lebeiko of Bicycle Habitat, which provided volunteers for the event). Escorted rides, or “bike buses,” took students from Sunset Park, Carroll Gardens and Windsor Terrace/Kensington to the Park Slope […]

DOT Launches Walk-to-School Program, Koch Calls Bike Lanes “Glorious”

By Brad Aaron | Nov 2, 2011 | 1 Comment

DOT today launched a new initiative to help students stay physically active by walking to school. Schools that register for the Walk Ways program will be offered lesson plans on educating students about the benefits of walking and assistance from DOT in developing walk-to-school routes. Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan was joined by Ed Koch at P.S. […]

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Tennessee Mom Threatened With Arrest For Letting Daughter Bike to School

By Tanya Snyder | Sep 1, 2011 | No Comments

It’s back-to-school time, and along with it, the requisite crackdown over kids getting to school by bike. A few years ago, we highlighted cases from Mississippi to British Columbia where authorities stopped kids from walking alone. And now, we have the case of Teresa Tryon of Tennessee, threatened with criminal charges for letting her child […]

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One More Push Can Preserve Federal Safe Routes to School Funding

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Aug 18, 2011 | No Comments

This week, the Safe Routes to School National Conference convenes in Minneapolis, a progressive city determined to become the most bicycle friendly in the nation. But even here, far from the nation’s capital, in a region celebrated for its massive greenway system, drama inside the Beltway has instilled an air of urgency to the event. […]

Bronx Teenagers Continue Two-Year Fight For Pedestrian Safety

By Noah Kazis | May 23, 2011 | 3 Comments

Two years ago, the Bronx Helpers decided to take action about a dangerous intersection in their neighborhood. The team of middle and high-schoolers, participants in a community service group run by the New Settlement Apartments, routinely crossed the street at 172nd and Townsend. They all could recount traffic crashes they’d seen at the corner, with […]

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Senate Introduces a Narrower Bill for Wider Sidewalks

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 15, 2011 | No Comments

Like everyone else, Safe Routes to School advocates are scaling back. Last year, a bill introduced in the Senate asked for $600 million to enhance pedestrian and bike safety near schools. “We were working in a pretty different environment,” said Margo Pedroso, deputy director of the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. “Everybody was talking […]

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