Safe Routes to School

Program Contacts

The Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program works to improve children’s health and safety and increase the number of students walking or biking to school. The SRTS Program has been in existence since 2005.

Benefits of Walking and Biking to School

• More exercise during the day
• Fewer cars around school buildings
• Safer neighborhoods

Programs in Cuyahoga County

• Brooklyn
• Chagrin Falls
• Cleveland
• Cleveland Heights
• East Cleveland
• Euclid
• Fairview Park
• Lakewood
• Parma
• Shaker Heights
• South Euclid / Lyndhurst
• Rocky River

How to become a SRTS community

• Form a group of people who want to make walking and biking to school safer
• Hold a kick-off meeting
• Gather information and find issues
• Identify solutions
• Make a plan

If you would like help with starting a SRTS program, please call 216.201.2000 for more information.

Links

• National Center for Safe Routes to School
• Ohio Department of Transportation Safe Routes to School
• Safe Routes Chagrin