Safe Routes to School Programs

PROJECT DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO JANUARY 31, 2013! Citrus Heights K-8 Students! Enter your chance to win a prize by submitting a video about walking or biking to school in Citrus Heights. The video should be fun, encouraging, and should promote walking or biking to school. Please read all rules and regulations below; the contest […]

On Friday, September 14, 2012, People Reaching Out and WALKSacramento conducted a pedestrian count and traffic observation of the Fruitridge Road and 58th Street intersection.  This intersection  has been a focus of WALKSacramento’s work in the past year in partnership with the community to support pedestrian safety improvements in the area.  This area is one

On Tuesday, July 18, WALKSacramento staff led students on a walk audit around Sutter Middle School as part of the Sacramento City Unified School District’s Summer of Service program.  The students had been hearing from transportation planners and engineers as part of their class work, but WALKSacramento knows there’s nothing more educational than a good

The hard work and dedication of parent volunteers at Howe Avenue Elementary has paid off in a big way: Caltrans recently announced the approved project list for their latest round of Safe Routes to School grants and Sacramento County has been awarded $448,000 for construction of sidewalks on the west side of Howe Avenue between

  WALKSacramento executive director Teri Duarte opened up a panel presentation on  the connection between healthy outcomes and investment in active transportation at the first Transportation Choices Summit, hosted by TransForm, at the Sacramento Central Library on Tuesday, May 1, 2012.  The highlight of of the panel was the work of Neil Maislich, Ph.D., MPH detailing