Safe Routes To School
What is Safe Routes to School?
Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is a program aimed to increase the number of children who safely walk and bike to school. By starting with the trip to school, the entire community becomes a safer place for everyone to walk and bike.
What are the benefits of Safe Routes to School?
Successful SRTS initiatives increase the number of students who safely walk and bike to school. This can provide benefits to both the student and the community at large.
Student benefit
- Reduce student absences and tardiness;
- Increase student daily physical activity;
- Arrive to school alert and ready to study;
- Enjoy time with friends and neighbors;
- Connect with nature and neighborhood;
- Learn and apply traffic safety rules.
Community benefit
- Reduce traffic congestion, especially near schools;
- Increase traffic safety;
- Foster community involvement;
- Reduce air pollution and traffic noise.
Learn more about SRTS initiatives.
School Traffic Survey Results Report
Parent Survey – Please contact the SRTS Coordinator for results
Become a School Traffic Monitor (Crossing Guard)
2023 Summer Fun Poster Contest Winners
Educational Materials:
Brochure – General overview and highlights (4 pages)
Creating a Sense of Place Using Murals (2 pages)
5’Es Overview of SRTS (Flyer / Trifold)
Crossing Guards – 7 steps on how to obtain one
Crossing Guards – Give back, make streets safer (Promotional flyer)
Supports Statewide Initiatives
Vision Zero: Strategy to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.
Complete Streets: Reasonably accommodate convenient access and mobility for all transportation users.
Department of Education: Wellness Guideline PA4 – The school supports active transport by encouraging students and staff to walk and/or bike to school if reasonably safe to do so.
Department of Health: Hawaii Physical Activity and Nutrition Plan 2013-2020 Objective 5 – Increase the people who use active transportation to work or school by 10%.
Legislature: Resolution SR58 (2019) – Requesting all public elementary, intermediate, and middle schools in the State to participate in the SRTS program.
Resources
SRTS GuideRTS Guide
Complete Streets Design Manual September, 2016
Oahu Bike Plan August, 2012
Section 8: Children and School Zones of the Statewide Pedestrian Master Plan and Pedestrian Toolbox May, 2013
Part 7: Traffic Controls for School Areas of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) 2009
Safe Routes to School National Partnership
Safe Routes National Center for Safe Routes to School
