Comments on: Teach Your Children Well: Safe Routes to School http://www.commutebybike.com/2010/11/03/teach-your-children-well-safe-routes-to-school/ Tips, Hints, Reviews and Safety for Bike Commuters Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:08:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Kevin Love http://www.commutebybike.com/2010/11/03/teach-your-children-well-safe-routes-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-227428 Kevin Love Thu, 04 Nov 2010 02:58:38 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/?p=5801#comment-227428 Here in Toronto, a new school just opened in one of the suburbs as a "walking only" school. From: http://www.hdsb.ca/Newsroom/Pages/PLRobertsonPublicSchool.aspx "The Halton District School Board will open one of its newest schools, P.L. Robertson Public School in Milton, on January 4, 2010 as a "walking-only" school. As the newly-built school gets ready to receive students, the school board and community partners have been busy ensuring the infrastructure and supports are in place for students to use active transportation to get to and from school." It is not too hard to retrofit existing schools to be car-free. All one has to do is put up barriers to ensure no cars can enter the school property. The local government signs a two-block radius as a "no stopping zone." Then the local police incorporate as part of their routine daily patrols having a police officer at the school 1/2 hour before school begins and 1/2 hour after school lets out to ticket anyone who tries to stop a car to let a child on/off. Simple, easy and cheap. All schools can easily go car-free. Here in Toronto, a new school just opened in one of the suburbs as a “walking only” school. From:

http://www.hdsb.ca/Newsroom/Pages/PLRobertsonPublicSchool.aspx

“The Halton District School Board will open one of its newest schools, P.L. Robertson Public School in Milton, on January 4, 2010 as a “walking-only” school. As the newly-built school gets ready to receive students, the school board and community partners have been busy ensuring the infrastructure and supports are in place for students to use active transportation to get to and from school.”

It is not too hard to retrofit existing schools to be car-free. All one has to do is put up barriers to ensure no cars can enter the school property. The local government signs a two-block radius as a “no stopping zone.” Then the local police incorporate as part of their routine daily patrols having a police officer at the school 1/2 hour before school begins and 1/2 hour after school lets out to ticket anyone who tries to stop a car to let a child on/off.

Simple, easy and cheap. All schools can easily go car-free.

]]> By: Cycling For Beginners http://www.commutebybike.com/2010/11/03/teach-your-children-well-safe-routes-to-school/comment-page-1/#comment-227420 Cycling For Beginners Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:15:36 +0000 http://commutebybike.com/?p=5801#comment-227420 This is an important program! Our local school has gone so far as to tell parents that only children who live in small neighborhoods adjacent to the school are ALLOWED to walk or ride bikes to school. We need to get back to times when walking and cycling were common activities for children. This is an important program! Our local school has gone so far as to tell parents that only children who live in small neighborhoods adjacent to the school are ALLOWED to walk or ride bikes to school. We need to get back to times when walking and cycling were common activities for children.

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