School Design Getting Second Look In Effort To Make Kids More Active
Even with lack of exercise being a major contributing factor to the childhood obesity
epidemic in America, few children walk to school today. Only 13% in 2009 compared to 50% about 20 to 30 years ago.
This can be attributed to a lot of reasons but it doesn't help that schools are sometimes built on cheap land outside of walking range for most
students.
As planning for three new schools is in the works, a Seattle city traffic safety committee has been working on ways to improve school design to encourage more active children and less driving.
http://streetsblog.net/2013/09/19/seattle-reconsiders-school-design-to-get-kids-walking-again/
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.
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