Safe Routes to School

Program
Portland Bureau of Transportation's Safe Routes to School program improves conditions for walking, biking, and rolling around schools. Safe Routes to School uses infrastructure improvements (like crosswalks) and education to increase safety, reduce congestion, and encourage physical activity.
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Featured content

A group of four young children on bicycles. They are stopped on the side of a street, wearing helmets, and smiling.

Traffic Safety Education Programming

Middle school class rides bikes near George Middle School

Bike Safety Education

Safe Routes to School logo with animated animals walking, skateboarding and riding a scooter

Video Library: Safety Lessons for Youth & Families

A wrench standing upright entwined with a rose encompassed by a white hexagon. Title says Fixing Our Streets Your Dime at Work over a salmon pink background.

Fixing Our Streets and Safe Routes to School

Four children and two adults on bikes in the street stopping to smile for the camera.

Sign up for Safe Routes to School emails

Intersection on NE Alberta Street with crosswalks and people walking

Report non-urgent traffic safety concerns

Contact

PBOT Safe Routes to School

saferoutes@portlandoregon.gov
phone number503-823-1171

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A PBOT snow plow heads out on its winter weather route in the middle of a snow storm.

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News

PBOT urges the public to slow down, as speed, impairment keep pedestrian deaths at historic high level in Portland, across U.S. in 2022

Speed, impairment, and traveling on high crash corridors accounted for most traffic crashes. The 30 busy, multilane streets PBOT has identified as high crash corridors comprise less than 10% of city streets, but accounted for 70% percent of the traffic deaths last year.

Updated Press release

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