safe routes to school – ODOT Transportation Insights

September 18, 2020

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A Safe Routes to School ‘audit’ offers valuable insight – and direction on next (safe) steps

December 13, 2019 ODOT Communications Team 0

The day began with observations. Watch middle school students and their parents, walking, on bicycles, getting out of cars and off buses… see what barriers they face as they make their way to school. Then […]

Here is an example of a street in Milton-Freewater near Gib Olinger Elementary that will get sidewalks so youngsters can walk to and from school safely.

It’s a train! A plane! A… walking school bus?

June 17, 2019 ODOT Communications Team 0

The pioneer spirit is alive and well in the eastern Oregon community of Milton-Freewater. The school district here has implemented a unique program called a “walking school bus,” and residents young and old are responding […]

Liberty Elementary school bus, on its way to collect students.

Liberty Elementary ready for safer crossings

June 11, 2019 ODOT Communications Team 0

Salem school wins a Safe Routes to School grant. […]

A student walks home from Millicoma School in Coos Bay.

Grant funds will improve student safety

May 8, 2019 ODOT Communications Team 0

A historic Coos Bay neighborhood is getting a facelift, thanks to a $2 million Safe Routes to School grant, one of the largest in southwest Oregon. The new improvements dovetail with a new Eastside School, […]