Safe Routes to Schools is a charitable organisation whose aim is to promote safer routes to schools, walking to school, cycling to school, road safety, traffic safety, healthy travel, active travel.

Every Monday morning and Zaida Arce and her son set out on their daily walk to Our Lady of Refuge School in the Fordham Bedford community in The Bronx.

German Examples of Safer Routes to School Rudolf Gliewe (ADAC), Maria Limbourg (University of Essen) and Beate Pappritz (ADAC) Paper presented at the Road Safety Education Conference in York, June 1998. Introduction In 1970, Germany showed the highest European traffic death rate in children. For every 100, 000 children under the age of 15 years, 15.3 were fatally injured. This was the beginning ...