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April 5 - 7, 2015

Safe Routes to School National Conference

Columbus OH

Learn how Safe Routes to School programs across the nation are changing the habits of an entire generation of school children while improving the health and environment of numerous communities. This fourth national conference will feature workshop sessions, mobile tours, inspirational presentations, and networking opportunities to help you start or expand your SRTS program.

This event, which takes place every two years, will once again bring together the wide range of practitioners that are working at the local, regional, state and national level to make it safe, convenient, and fun for children to walk and bicycle safely to school. In 2013 the Safe Routes to School National Conference makes its way to a state and region that has many years of experience building successful SRTS programs and infrastructure — Sacramento, California — the capital region of our nation’s largest and most diverse state.

With the adoption of the first state SRTS program in the U.S. in 1999 and the home of some of the earliest programs to increase the number of children walking and bicycling to school, California is a laboratory for strategies and models in a wide range of contests from large urban centers, to automobile-dominated suburbs, to dispersed rural areas. The Sacramento region reflects many of these challenges and has emerged in recent years as a model for a more sustainable, walkable and bicycle-friendly region.

This bi-annual conference is sponsored by the National Center for Safe Routes to School (NCSRTS) and the Safe Routes to School National Partnership (SRTSNP), with the 2013 event being hosted by the Local Government Commission (LGC) (LGC). The LGC has partnered with several local, regional, and statewide agencies and organizations that reflect the range and diversity of the topic itself. More about the conference sponsors and this impressive partnership.

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