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

Children with umbrellas being lead through a crosswalk by an adult near a school.

SmartTrips to Kindergarten

Students wearing backpacks outside a school waving. Text on picture reads, "Smart Trips to Middle School! Activity ideas + wellness tips for incoming 6th graders. Free swim pass!

SmartTrips to Middle School

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 number311

Follow on Social Media

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A group of bicyclists stopped at an intersection. They are holding their hands in the air celebrating Sunday Parkways

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