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Walk this way to safer routes to school
Walk to school day in Coventry 2006
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Walking or biking to school are two simple acts that can have a profound positive impact for our children, our communities, and our planet.

That's why, as elementary and middle school students head back to class across Rhode Island, the Coalition for Transportation Choices (CTC) is ramping up its efforts to get the word out about International Walk To School Day on October 6.

You can find out more by calling Eugenia Marks at the Audubon Society of Rhode Island at 949-5454 ext 3003, or e-mailing her at emarks@asri.org. Or you can register for the event online through the Safe Routes To School website.

Walk To School Day events help create safer routes for walking and bicycling and emphasize the importance of issues such as increasing physical activity among children, pedestrian safety, traffic congestion, concern for the environment and building connections between families, schools and the broader community.

Educators, school officials, parents and other concerned adults can organize a Walk To School Day event for their  entire school or for just one classroom. CTC member groups have contacted schools across the state to help create different event for Walk To School Day such as a "walking school bus," "walk with elders," or a "with-it walkers."

CTC will provide posters, banners, and recognize the special efforts of participating schools with Golden Sneaker Awards. We'll also seek to spotlight the work of seven municipalities -- Barrington, Central Falls, Cranston, East Providence, Jamestown, Providence, and Woonsocket -- that received funding for Safe Routes to School from the Federal Highway Administration. The schools worked with the Department of Administration on education and Department of Transportation on programs and projects to make walking to school safer for students.

Walk to School Day was established in the United States in 1997 by the Partnership for a Walkable America. Canada and Great Britain already had walk to school programs in place. In 2000, these three countries joined together to create International Walk to School Day.

In the U.S., International Walk to School Day is expected to include 5,000 schools from all 50 states. Walkers from the U.S. will join children and adults in 40 countries around the world.
About the Coalition for Transportation Choices
The Coalition for Transportation Choices (CTC) calls for a 21st century transportation system that enhances our economy and provides all Rhode Islanders with healthy transportation choices. Visit our website to get more information about the Coalition for Transportation Choices or to find out how to become a member of the CTC.

Rhode Island's 21st century transportation system must provide all people - employees, tourists, youth, elderly, able and disabled - with safe and dependable access to their community's opportunities for work, education, services, and recreation. The system should be considerably less dependent on cars and fossil fuels as well as efficient, effective and easy to use. It should minimize impacts to land, water and air and improve the health and well-being of all Rhode Islanders. Such a system should be sustained with predictable and consistent funding for operation and future growth.




CTC's work is supported by the Rhode Island Foundation, The Prospect Hill Foundation and Third Sector New England's Capacity Building Fund


Coalition for Transportation Choices
Member Groups
* AARP
* Amalgamated Transit Union
* American Lung Association in RI
* Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living
* Audubon Society of Rhode Island
* Blueways Alliance
* Blackstone Valley Partnership
* Blackstone Valley Tourism Council
* Blueways Alliance
* Brown emPower
* Childhood Lead Action Project
* City-State, the Urban Design Lab at RISD
* Clean Water Action
* Conservation Law Foundation
* Cornish Associates
* DOT Watch
* East Coast Greenway Alliance
* Ecolect
* Environmental Justice League of RI
* Farm Fresh Rhode Island
* Grow Smart RI
* Head of the Bay Gateway
* LISC-RI
* Narragansett Bay Estuary Program
* Pawtucket Foundation
* Providence Foundation
* Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau
* Recycle-A-Bike
* Rhode Island Bicycle Coalition
* RI Consulting Engineers (RICE)
* Rhode Island Student Climate Coalition
* RI Association of Railroad Passengers
* RI Interfaith Power and Light
* RI Land Trust Council
* RICOSH
* Save The Bay
* SEIU, District 1199
* Sierra Club
* U.S. Open Cycling
* Working Rhode Island
* Youth in Action