Safe Routes to School

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs are sustained efforts to improve the health and well-being of children by assessing and taking measures to improve walking and biking conditions on the route to school and enabling and encouraging children to walk and bike these routes.

For more information on SRTS, including resources and tips for starting a program in your school or community, please visit the Virginia SRTS website.

VDOT Safe Routes to School Funding Information

VDOT is responsible for administering the federal funds for SRTS in Virginia.  Between now and the end of FY2009, VDOT will distribute ~$13 million in grants to communities interested in to making it easier for children to walk or bike to school. 

October 18, 2007

RICHMOND--The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) recently awarded $2.5 millinon in Safe Routes to School program funding to foster opportunities for Virginia children in grades K-8 to more safely wanl and bike to school.  Read more.

SRTS Information from VDOT

Virginia Selected as One of 10 Project States by SRTS National Partnership

In January of 2007, the SRTS National Partnership initiated the State Network Project in the District of Columbia and nine key states: California, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia.

The project creates state networks that bring together advocacy groups, government agencies and other leaders to ensure that the SRTS federal program succeeds and to leverage additional resources, remove barriers to walking and bicycling to schools, and to create an institutional framework for generating long-term policy changes. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is a primary funder of the program.

Visit Virginia's Page on the Partnership Website