Safe Routes to School Programs

On Thursday, August 16, WALKSacramento staff and volunteers, took part in a very successful Advocacy Day to close out an even more successful national Safe Routes to School conference here in Sacramento.  The Advocacy Day was organized by WALKSacramento, the non-profit California Safe Routes Partnership and the statewide transportation advocacy group TransForm, organized.  The Advocacy Day event brought on-the-ground Safe […]

Summer is quickly coming to an end, which means that hundreds of children in the Sacramento region will be walking and biking to and from school. WALKSacramento and the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) want to remind everyone that “It’s Up to All of Us” to keep walkers, bicyclists, drivers, and other users safe

Parents, students and partners review where the sidewalks will be built On a pleasant spring morning, Friday, May 17, 2013, WALKSacramento joined with parents, students and school staff at Anna Kirchgater Elementary School, 1801 Stevenson Avenue in south Sacramento to hear Assemblymember Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento/Elk Grove urge passage of AB 1194. This measure, if

WALKSacramento’s Bike to School Day events on May 8 were a resounding success! Nearly 500 students rode their bikes to 12 schools in West Sacramento and South Natomas. As a national event, Bike to School Day capitalizes on the excitement surrounding National Bike Month to raise awareness of the need for Safe Routes to School.

On April 1, 2013, WALKSacramento began work to complete the Safe Routes to School: School and Community Education and Programming project in the Natomas Unified School District.  The work will include providing walking and bicycling to school programs, pedestrian and bicycle safety education, volunteer training and other support to make it safer for K-8 students in