California Schools Receive Safe Routes to School Funding

Three school districts in Sonoma County, Calif., have been awarded more than $1 million to implement Safe Routes to School programs, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports. Recipients hope to build on the success of the county's recent Walk and Roll to School Day, which included more than 4,000 students this year. The Department of Health Services will use $500,000 of the grant to launch bicycle and pedestrian education programs at eight schools in the Roseland and Bellevue school districts. A second grant of $611,700 will pay for infrastructure improvements along popular walking routes near Kawana and Bellevue elementary schools in Santa Rosa. The projects, scheduled to begin in 2010, are expected to improve pedestrian safety by adding sidewalks, pathways and pedestrian crosswalks (Benefield, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 10/15/08).

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