Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Schools

Lakewood, Ohio: The Suburb Where Everyone Can Walk to School

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Apr 29, 2014 | No Comments

The inner Cleveland suburb of Lakewood (population 51,000) calls itself a “walking school district.” Lakewood has never had school buses in its history, and kids grow up walking and biking to school. Mornings and afternoons are a beehive of activity on streets near schools, as kids and parents walk to and from classrooms. You can feel […]

Dateline Nashville: Students Spotted Walking to School — Outside!

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 17, 2014 | No Comments

Today in what’s wrong with everything: The Nashville news media is apparently aghast that students at a local high school had to take a walk. According to WKRN, on the way back from a field trip around 100 students from the Nashville School of the Arts were dropped off about eight-tenths of a mile from […]

In Queens, Parents Push for Safer Streets Near Schools

By Stephen Miller | Feb 11, 2014 | 1 Comment

After 25-year-old Martha Tibillin-Guamug was killed crossing the street in Jackson Heights last week, the 110th Precinct went on the offensive, writing 200 summonses in 72 hours, including dozens for failure to yield to pedestrians. At a traffic safety town hall on Sunday, residents applauded the effort, then asked the police and DOT to do more. The […]

Five Ways Colleges Are Coaxing Students Out of Their Cars

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 5, 2014 | No Comments

The University of Wisconsin-Madison provides bike valet at its football games. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supports free transit for everyone in the region. The University of California, Irvine launched a bike-share system in 2009, long before any major city in California had done so. American colleges and universities are leaders in […]

The Suburb Where Everybody Can Walk to School

By Angie Schmitt | Jan 17, 2014 | No Comments

Lakewood, Ohio, population 51,000, doesn’t have any school buses. It never has. Because of the way its schools were designed and sited, this inner-ring Cleveland suburb doesn’t need buses — every child in the district lives less than two miles from their classroom, and most are within one mile. Lakewood calls itself a “walking school […]

Report: More Kids Are Walking to School

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 3, 2013 | No Comments

The long–term decline of walking and biking to school has been linked to the childhood obesity epidemic, a big share of morning rush hour traffic, and even kids’ lack of attention in class. In 1969, 41 percent of children in grades K–8 lived within one mile of school, and of those kids, 89 percent usually walked or biked. By […]

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