Study Says Walking, Bicycling To School Helps Your Child Concentrate
Besides getting exercise and fighting diseases such as diabetes, having your child walk or ride their bike to school may help in another area- concentration. A Danish study released late in 2012 found that kids who cycled or walked to school, rather than traveling by car or public transportation, performed measurably better on tasks demanding concentration.
The Atlantic Cities has more on the study results.
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
2 comments:
You should make that article required reading to all the parents that drive their kids to school every day.
Yeah, maybe we could partner with the school districts!
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