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Safe Routes to School

Program

The Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School program helps kids and their families walk, bike, and roll to and from school and around their neighborhoods. Through education and infrastructure improvements, we increase safety, encourage physical activity, and much more.

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A group of students in backpacks smiling at each other as they walk two by two on a sidewalk. They all have their hands in their pockets on a chilly, October morning.

About 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

Close-up of students’ and caregivers’ jeans and tennis shoes as they walk to school on a sidewalk. PBOT has resources to help plan your route. Photo by PBOT.

Safe Routes to School Frequently Asked Questions

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

Transportation safety education programming

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

A child rides their bike on a street lined by two green "school street" signs next to a school.

School campus circulation

An elementary-aged child wearing a backpack and holding a colorful cardboard cutout of a school bus with text that reads, "walking school bus."

How to start a walking school bus

A group of more than two dozen kids and adults on bike on a neighborhood street under a canopy of trees.

How to start a bike bus

Approximately 7 kids and a couple adults walking along a sidewalk near a school. The kids all have backpacks on.

How to start a park-and-walk

Seven children smile and post for a photo while standing and straddling their bikes on a concrete surface outside of a school.

Safe Routes to School Program Summary 2023-24

Kids and an adult playing on a street at a street fair.

Personal safety on our streets

Report a Problem Calling 311

Contact

PBOT Safe Routes to School

saferoutes@portlandoregon.gov

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