Walk to School Day - October 6th, 2010

The Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS) movement is holding its second year of Walk to School Day this upcoming October 6th.

Walk to School Day is a global, annual event promoting "safe and active walking and bicycling." And this year, SRTS' San Francisco chapter increased its participants by 10 schools on top of last year's 5.

According to the SRTS website, the primary goals of their program is to:

• Increase bicycle, pedestrian, and traffic safety around schools;
• Decrease traffic congestion around schools;
• Reduce childhood obesity by increasing number of children walking and biking to school; and
• Improve air quality, community safety and security, and community involvement around school

In addition to Walk to School Day, the SRTS is also partnered with San Francisco's Bike to School Day which is to be held on April 7th, 2011.

Both of these programs were started recently in the bay area (SRTS in 2009 and Bike to School Day in 2008) and will hopefully get the attention of more schools in these upcoming years!

For more information regarding these events and programs, visit:

http://sfsaferoutestoschool.org/

http://biketoschoolday.org/