Safe Routes to School

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The River Valley Regional Commission, through its contract with the Georgia Department of Transportation, assists its local communities in developing a Safe Routes to School Plan for middle and elementary schools. The RVRC also serves as a regional aid for the Safe Routes to School Resource Center in further developing Safe Routes to School initiatives within our 16-county region.

For more information on this program, or if you would your middle or elementary school to be considered as a candidate to develop a Safe Routes to School Plan, please contact bikeplanner@rivervalleyrc.org or 706-660-5370.

Georgia's Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program is designed to encourage more kids to walk and bike to school safely. Safe Routes to School Program is organized around six ideas – also called the 6 Es:

1. Encouragement: Encouraging kids to walk and bike
2. Education: Teaching kids and parents safe ways to walk and bike
3. Evaluation: Checking to see how many kids are walking and biking as a result of the program
4. Enforcement: Changing driver, walker and bicyclist behavior as they travel together along the road
5. Engineering: Planning and making the environment safer for walking and bicycling
6. Equity: Working to make safe routes accessible to all demographics and abilities

Safe Routes to School Website 

National Bike to School Day 

Bicycle Rodeo Toolkit