The Blanco Citizens’ Assembly
Wheels & Feet Task Force
 

Mission Statement 
Develop an alternative transportation plan that unites the community, enhances safety and beauty, and assures accessibility for all people.
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Wheels and Feet efforts will concentrate on completing work at Bindseil City Park and on the Safe Routes to School program, working through small gatherings, email, and phone calls rather than through monthly meetings

 
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Walk Your Child to School

Walking to school is a missed exercise opportunity. Roughly only 10% of children nationwide walk to school regularly. Even among those kids living within a mile of their school, only 25% are regular walkers.

Walking or biking to school protects the environment and your health.

The promotion of bicycling and walking to school also provides an opportunity to address safety. Reducing the risk of injury includes teaching children pedestrian and bicycle skills. It also means reminding drivers to watch for others using the road. Hazardous conditions along routes to school need to be identified and fixed.

Some of the best ways to increase the safety of a child's walk or bike to school are to: provide safe, well-maintained walkways; teach children to cross streets at marked crossings, and provide ample, well-designed, accessible, and when necessary monitored crosswalks; slow traffic in neighborhoods and near schools.