Safe and Active Routes

In 2010, Thurston County PHSS began to work on a project to bring Safe Routes to School to two North Thurston Public School elementaries. The goal of the project is to increase the physical activity among school-age children by encouraging, and educating about, walking and bicycling to school as well as traffic safety. The project will identify environmental and policy changes needed to support the increase of these active ways of getting to and from school. Lacey Elementary began its project in the fall of 2010 year and will be holding an assembly and kick-off Walk and Bicycle to School Day in April 2011. Walking School Buses, a group of families who work together to provide adult guides for kids walking to school, are also forming as part of the project.

TCPHSS works in partnership with Thurston Regional Planning Council, Intercity Transit and local school districts to implement the Healthy Kids / Safe Streets Action Plan.

For more information about that effort, please contact TRPC at (360) 956-7575, or to visit their webpage for the project, Click Here...