by: Johanna Bernhard (Herald and News)
Community members gathered for a town hall meeting at Roosevelt Elementary School Monday evening to discuss ways to increase funding for the Safe Routes to School program, as well as improving bike and pedestrian safety and increasing the number of students who walk and bike to school.
Safe Routes to School is a national initiative working to improve the health and well-being of children by enabling and encouraging them to walk and bike to school. The program’s efforts are sustained by parents, schools, community leaders and local, state and federal governments.
The meeting on Monday, sponsored by the Blue Zones Project, Commute Options and The Street Trust, stressed the importance of the health and safety factors of the program as well as the need to ask the legislation to fund programs for “every school in the state,” said Commute Options Community Outreach Coordinator Kim Curley.
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