Next Safe Routes to School MeetingJanuary 31st
Time: 7:30 – 8:45pm
Whetstone Community Center
We will be discussing the new format of the School Travel plan and determining the next steps for participating schools. Our Mission “To promote the common good and general welfare of all community members through advocacy, education, and implementation of projects and campaigns that will make the streets safer for all users in the Greater Clintonville Area
Sign your support for the North High / North Broadway intersection improvements
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By admin, on February 1st, 2012 There is a transportation bill currently on the floor of the US House of Representatives which will eliminate any sort of federal funding for biking or walking programs. This includes the Safe Routes to School program.
Below is more information and a link to send a letter or email to your Representative.
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Consider Biking Action Alert!!!
February 1, 2012
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 Today, Consider Biking is joining in with our national partners to send a national alert asking you to call, e-mail or fax your U.S. House Representative and ask them to protect funding for critical and popular bicycling and walking programs – please take a moment to do this if you haven’t already.
When you click through to the LAB advocacy system…there’s a sample draft letter, and it’ll push the letters to the right place. Its super easy, and takes about 1-2 minutes.
House leadership has been pressing to eliminate bicycling and walking in the Transportation bill for the past year. The attacks have been relentless. The Committee has finally released its draft of the new bill…and although we knew the bill would be bad news for biking and walking…we didn’t think it would go so far as to completely cut every reference to bicycling and walking out of federal transportation policy.
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By admin, on January 27th, 2012 Safe Routes to School Meeting
January 31st
7:30
Whetstone Rec Center
We will be discussing the new format of the School Travel plan and determining the next steps for participating schools.
Please review the STP guidance documents before the meeting as they contain important information.
www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Planning/ProgramMgt/Projects/SafeRoutes/Pages/default.aspx
If you have any questions, please contact me.
Thanks,
Elizabeth Smith
smithemnk@yahoo.com
840-0146
By admin, on November 3rd, 2011 Clintonville’s Safe Routes to School committee met on November 1st at the Whetstone Community Center.
Representatives from Clinton, Dominion, Immaculate Conception, Indian Springs and Our Lady of Peace were present to discuss the School Travel Plan (STP) process and learn more about the available ODOT grants.
The next meeting will be on December 1th at the Whetstone Community Center from 7:30-8:45.
By admin, on October 20th, 2011 By Kevin Parks ThisWeek Community Newspapers
A study, albeit a very small one, of 19 schoolchildren in Missouri found a 26.5-percent increase in reading comprehension among those who walked to school compared with those who got rides.
That statistic was offered up at last week’s Clintonville Safe Routes to School community meeting by Julie Walcoff of the Ohio Department of Transportation. The study only involved a classroom of 19 students, but the dramatic results have caused in a larger study to be undertaken, the Ohio Safe Routes to School program manager said.
Her comments about not merely the physical but also the mental benefit of walking were echoed by Jamie Turner of Columbus Public Health, another of the guest speakers at the meeting, which . . . → Read More: Attendees hear benefits of physical activity for children
By admin, on October 19th, 2011 By CLIFF WILTSHIRE Published: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:47 PM EDT
The road toward getting more Clintonville students to walk or bike to school became a little clearer last week, though many additional obstacles must be maneuvered before the effort can secure federal funds through the Ohio Department of Transportation.
Safe Routes to School leaders hosted a communitywide meeting last Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave. More than 50 people attended, including representatives from most of Clintonville’s schools serving grades K through eighth.
Guest speakers who addressed the meeting, and answered questions, were Julie Walcoff, SRTS program manager at ODOT; Jamie Turner, SRTS coordinator for Columbus Public Health; and Terry Stewart from the Columbus Public Service Department.
Read . . . → Read More: Officials share insights into next steps for Safer Routes to School initiative
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