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, encourages physical activity, and much more.
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Featured content

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

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

Middle school class rides bikes near George Middle School

Bike safety education

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

Middle schools students and parents are shows walking and biking to campus. Text saying "Free Prizes!" and "Activity ideas + wellness tips for 6th graders!" appear in cartoon style bubbles around them.

SmartTrips to Middle School

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

Commissioner Hardesty Visits Bike Bus

How to start a bike bus

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.

How to start a park-and-walk

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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Related offices, programs, advisory groups, and projects

Aerial view from Marquam Hill and OHSU, looking at the Portland Aerial tram moving down to the South Waterfront. Fall leaves, the Willamette River in the middle distance, Mt. Hood in the back.

Transportation

Walking, biking, transit

Walking, Biking, Transit, and Transportation Safety

Vision Zero

Vision Zero: Eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries

Events

Winter Walk + Roll to School Day

Put on your snow or rain boots and walk or roll to school while enjoying winter time in Portland.

Community Event
Dozens of adults and students gather at the entrance of Woodstock Elementary School with neighborhood streets and the sun rising in the background before school starts.
More events

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