Active Transportation Reports

Community level strategies to promote physical activity have the potential to improve health and well-being. This report provides evidence and an analysis on the benefits of promoting active travel to school for children of all ages.

Community level strategies to promote physical activity have the potential to improve health and well-being. This report provides evidence and an analysis on the benefits of promoting active travel to school for children of all ages.

BikeNWA believes that learning to ride a bike in a positive, safe and fun environment is key to becoming a happy and healthy life-long rider. Let’s Play BikesNWA is a free three-part guide to help parents to facilitate learning in a simple, fun and low-stress way.

Each of these Active Transportation Bingo cards focuses on a specific theme and you can use them to prompt different discussions about walking or cycling.

Learn to ride is a class/method/program to teach someone how to ride a bike for the first time.

A Community Bike Swap is a way to
refurbish and redistribute community bikes. It
engages participants to find bikes that fit them or their children better and is
a low to no-cost way to encourage bicycle ridership when paired with other
education or promotional events/rides or otherwise.

This document provides some ideas for how to stay active while practicing safe social distancing, including ways to make your walk more fun, Earth Day-themed activities, and safe walking and biking educational resources.

Assessment for bicycle to see if fit to be swapped 

A challenge for May to walk, ride,scoot, or skate everyday

Safe Routes to School programs make walking and bicycling to school safer and more accessible for children, including those with disabilities, and increase the number of children who choose to walk and bicycle. Safe Routes to School programs can benefit communities by enhancing children’s health and safety, well-being, and academic performance.