A Walk and Bike School Bus works just like a regular yellow school bus…but without the bus! Parents and/or other adult volunteer ‘drivers’ lead a group of students to and from school on foot or bike. The “Bus” travels along a predetermined route, picking up participants along the way at designated “bus stops.”
Sounds like fun […]

[James Oberstar at the
National Bike Summit]

[From the League of American Bicyclists Newsletter]
The National Center for Safe Routes to School has announced it will establish an annual award in the name of Congressman James L. Oberstar.
Oberstar has fought for transportation issues for over 30 years and has been a major champion for Safe Routes to School. […]

[Kim Cottrell]

My parents met when my father almost hit my mother with his car in the parking lot of Roseburg High School in 1954. He wasn’t paying attention. He felt so bad that he offered her a ride home. They married a year later.
In his mid-20s, my father was involved in a fatal collision […]

[New sign will improve
pedestrian safety]

Last night, pedestrian advocates, interested citizens and PDOT staffers met at City Hall for the monthly meeting of the Portland Pedestrian Advisory Committee (PAC). This committee provides a forum for citizens to get involved in establishing goals and policies within the city that relate to walking.
City Traffic Engineer Rob […]

[An article in Spanish]

I’m happy to announce that this site is now available in ten languages.
Thanks to a nifty Wordpress plug-in that uses Google and Alta Vista’s Babelfish software, you can now easily read this site in any of the following languages: German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Russian […]

Yesterday was International Walk and Bike to School Day and 25 schools from all over Portland took part in the event.
I caught up with some of the action at Sunnyside School in southeast Portland and I was thrilled and inspired to see so many kids walking and biking to school. Sunnyside […]

If you ever wondered how serious the city of Portland is about making it safe to walk, drive and ride around our city, take a look at this photo.

I know it just looks like a bunch of people sitting around a table…and it is. But what you’re looking is something the city calls its […]

At a meeting last night of the Community and Schools Traffic Safety Partnership Coordination Council, PDOT announced three exciting new programs within their Share the Road campaign; a Speed Reader Board program, a Yard Sign Lender program, and an “I Share the Road Pledge” program.

Neighborhood Speed Reader Board Program
These “smart” signs show a passing vehicle’s […]

Now that school is back in session, I thought it would be a good time to share some interesting and important information about pedestrian safety from a child’s perspective.
Through my work in Portland I have heard from several people involved with kids and traffic safety about the how children’s development makes them much more vulnerable […]

[Scene from last year’s event]

Next week 89 schools across Oregon will participate in International Walk + Bike to School Day. The purpose of the event is to educate kids, parents, and teachers about the benefits of walking and biking to school.
In Portland, 24 schools are signed up to join in the festivities. According […]