The preschool pick up scene

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walking to school with friends & neighbours - Christine Boyle walks with her kid & a friend’s kid to school every morning - when we have #neighbourhoodschools we build community #vanpoli #bced #39reasons why I care about school district 39

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Children riding their bicycles to school on Fridays in Barcelona, Spain

Great. But we need more safe school streets too. Local roads within 250m of a school should be closed to cars 8-9 and 2:30-4:00 M-F, with a network of separated bike lanes radiating out from every school.

Still STUNNED by how our culture has managed to "dangerize" things as simple & safe as a 9-y.o. walking a quarter mile home in the 'burbs. Here's today's ethics qu about it in @NYTimes. Grandma wants to HIRE A CHAPERONE for the .25 mile. Thoughts? nytimes.com/2023/01/11/sty…

The Public Health Agency of Canada recently released a report of the rates of Active School Travel across Canada based on data collected in the 2017/18 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study. Overall results: 22% walk 4% bike 74% use motorized transport 1/N

A huge number of children are addicted to screens and not able to independently explore their neighbourhood due to excessive vehicle speed and poor urban design. It’s a crisis that no one is talking about. I’m not surprised that teachers are seeing this trend. We can change this!

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“Currently about 2/3rds of all Dutch children walk or bike to school, with 75% of secondary school kids cycling to school. By enabling safe and active travel, Dutch cities prevent an estimated one million car journeys to school each morning.” — Melissa & Chris Bruntlett in #CurbingTraffic

While we start a new school year, we must remember our responsibility to make trips to and from school safe and secure. I am committed to ensuring that all vulnerable road users are protected by better design, and can move around this city safely. Much more to do.

A special moment this morning! Instead of riding the bus or driving, over 175 of our students and families joined our #BikeBus today to get to school. To make the morning even better, yard signs and posters with positive messages greeted the students as they rode by! 🚲🏡