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biking, as well as small-scale infrastructure projects that fill gaps in existing bicycle and pedestrian routes.
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• Infrastructure projects include sign and crosswalk improvements, pedestrian countdown timers, driver feedback signs, pedestrian and bicycle connective paths, pedestrian bridges and bicycle racks.
• Non-infrastructure projects include incentive programs, safety and health education, law enforcement assistance, safety campaigns, bicycle rodeo activities, bicycle physical education programs, in-street yield signs, walking school buses (a group of children walking to school with one or more adults) and bicycle trains.
• Safe Routes to School was created by Congress to combat the growing epidemic of childhood obesity and diabetes. One cause of the epidemic is the decline in children's physical activity. To that end, Safe Routes has three goals:
• Enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school
• Make bicycling and walking to school a safer and more appealing transportation alternative, thereby encouraging a healthy and active lifestyle from an early age
• Facilitate the planning, development and implementation of projects and activities that will improve safety and reduce traffic, fuel consumption and air pollution near schools.
• More information about the Safe Routes to School program can be found at http://www.sddot.com/services/school/Default.aspx