In the News 
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Safe Routes Program Director to Bike Climate Ride Marin IJ 5/16/13
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Distracted Driving Campaign at Drake High Marin IJ 2/14/13
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It's all in Your Head - the link between bicycling and brain power Bicycling Magazine
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"Car" Children Learn Less The Davis Enterprise
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Safer Roads Near Schools May Mean Fewer Kids Struck by Cars US News
Driver cleared in fatal Novato accident Novato Patch
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Tips for starting a Bike Train from Yes! Magazine
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Kindergartner bikes to school every day Twin Cities Times
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Safe Routes Partnership gets National Award Marin IJ May 10,2012
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Mill Valley adopts permanent SR2S Policy Marin IJ Feb. 2 2012
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Marin IJ coverage of 10 year evaluation
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San Anselmo and San Rafael receive funding Marin IJ
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San Ramon Walk to School Day on the Novato Patch
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Tam Valley Crossing Guard a hero Mill Valley Patch
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Edna Gets Top Honors for Walking and Biking Mill Valley Hearald September 30, 2011
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Novatoans discuss Traffic Congestion at San Jose Middle School on the Novato Patch
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Deb Hubsmith on the National Agenda for SR2S Pacific Sun August 26, 2011
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Marin Voice: Now is the time for form carpools
Marin IJ, January 1, 2011
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Mill Valley Lands $363K State Safe Routes Grant
Mill Valley Patch, November 14, 2010
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Safe Routes shifts into high gear
Pacific Sun, October 28, 2010
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Marin walk-to-school effort wins $383,000 grant
Marin IJ, October 28, 2010
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Students Across City Walk and Roll to School
Mill Valley Patch, October 7, 2010
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Walk, Bike, Run, or Skip to School on Oct. 6
San Anselmo-Fairfax Patch, October 5, 2010
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The Advocate - Getting Kids Moving Again
Momentum Magazine, September 19, 2010
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The Advocate - Getting Kids Moving Again
Momentum Magazine, September 19, 2010
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Reading, riding, walking, and arithmetic
Walking or biking to school is a great way to start the day,
but only if you're safe
San Anselmo-Fairfax Patch, September 15, 2010
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Ross Valley schools find new paths
Marinscope Newspapers, September 8, 2010
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Dixie wins Green Ways to School Awards
Marinscope Newspapers, September 1, 2010
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‘Green’ commute for bus-less school
Marinscope Newspapers, August 26, 2010
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Mill Valley schools get Safe Routes awards
Mill Valley Herald, August 25, 2010
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Upfront: The weather underground
Pacific Sun, January 8, 2010
Campaign to get kids walking,
biking to school to fight global warming
(Marin Independent Journal, January 10, 2010)
Advocates of a Marin campaign to get more kids walking and biking to school are expanding their initiative, fueled by a $175,000 grant to combat global warming. The new Greenways to School campaign is set to launch later this month, piggy-backing off the successful Safe Routes to Schools program.
“We want to find those green ways for students to get to school,” said Wendi Kallins, head of the Safe Routes program, who is putting together the Greenways campaign. “That could be by bikes, walking, carpool or bus.” …more
Upfront: The weather Underground
(Pacific Sun, January 8, 2010)
When officials at the Marin Community Foundation announced a five-year, $10 million initiative aimed at sparking local efforts to combat climate change, they probably didn't expect a barrage of criticism over what they were not funding …more
Students Give Up Wheels for Their Own Two Feet
LECCO, Italy — each morning, about 450 students travel along 17 school bus routes to 10 elementary schools in this lakeside city at the southern tip of Lake Como. There are zero school buses.
In 2003, to confront the triple threats of childhood obesity, local traffic jams and — most important — a rise in global greenhouse gases abetted by car emissions, an environmental group here proposed a retro-radical concept: children should walk to school.
They set up a piedibus (literally foot-bus in Italian) — a bus route with a driver but no vehicle. Each morning a mix of paid staff members and parental volunteers in fluorescent yellow vests lead lines of walking students along Lecco’s twisting streets to the schools’ gates, Pied Piper-style, stopping here and there as their flock expands … more (New York Times, March 26, 2009)
Announcements from SR2S Marin
