Dozens of young Columbians turned out this week for the first annual "Walk & Roll to School Day" and helped make history!The event was part of a growing international effort to encourage more students to walk or bicycle to school. More than fifty students participated at Immaculate Conception School, and another 25 or more walked or biked for the first time to Parkview Elementary School. Mayor Kevin Hutchinson turned out to encourage the participants, and the event was captured by local media.
Participation was relatively sparse at Columbia Middle School, largely due to significant barriers to safe biking and walking to that location. This school's impediments to safer routes--as well as barriers to walking or biking to the other schools in Columbia--are assessed in a new School Travel plan approved by city and school officials in September. Partners in the local Safe Routes To School program will now begin seeking funding to make recommended improvements.
(Photo courtesy louisphotos.com)
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