Safe Routes to School Programs

This spring, WALKSacramento hosted a Video Voice project for the Thomas Edison Leadership team with teacher Hillary Hartwell, and Communication Specialist for the San Juan Unified School District, Daniel Thigpen.  In a Video Voice, students discuss their community’s strengths or weaknesses through film. Thomas Edison’s project highlights student concerns related to the built environment around

WALKSacramento contracted with the Natomas Unified School District to finish the implementation of a Safe Routes to School project. The project aimed at increasing walking and biking to school at all elementary and middle schools in the Natomas Unified School District. Through education, encouragement, and volunteer development, WALKSacramento aims to create a sustainable Safe Routes

On Friday, March 7, WALKSacramento hosted a bike rodeo at Bannon Creek Elementary in Natomas with the help of Arlete Hodel, City of Sacramento police officers, and Delisha Easley. WALKSacramento put on the event in coordination with the Think Together after school program at Bannon Creek.  A bike rodeo is an interactive clinic that teaches

Bridgeway Island Elementary, a WALKSacramento Safe Routes project school in West Sacramento, won a social media contest hosted by Carmanah Technologies Corporation to receive a FREE Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB). RRFBs are user-actuated LEDs that supplement pedestrian crosswalk signs. Studies show that driver yielding rates increase with the use of a RRFB. The RRFB

Noralto is a diverse community in one of Sacramento’s oldest neighborhoods, adjacent to Del Paso Heights and North Sacramento.   WALKSacramento is working in partnership with Ubuntu Green, a fellow community-based non-profit organization, to engage the Noralto community to assess neighborhood concerns regarding transportation, safety and blight.  It has been an active effort. On July 9,