Where to Begin

• Explore student perspectives on how they travel to school.
• Explore the environmental and health impacts of student travel behaviour with your class.
• Set up and run a Classroom Emissions Tracking Program.
• Arrange to have a Delivery Partner work with your class or bring a program to your school.
• Use the MyTravel calculator to teach geography, applied math, etc. and highlite the issue of transportation emission.
• Help or sponsor student groups looking to take action on transportation emissions

• Promote or organize walk or cycle to school events.
• Set up and run a Classroom Emissions Tracking Program.
• Promote alternative travel such as transit or carpool options for everyone in the school.
• Create and measure a challenge for the school that involves the community.

School-based

• Establish an ongoing PAC position for Traffic Safety/Traffic Reduction.
• Take part in organization of walk to school/bike to school days.
• Provide financial and publicity (newsletter/website) support for parents.
• Lead campaigns and events.
• Coordinate bike smarts/bike skills and safety training.

District-based

• Provide a forum of support for less driving to and from school initiatives in the school district, and provincially.
• Email/website communication to all PACs for initiatives.
• Deliver traffic safety resolutions for BCCPAC.

• Choose to make the best interests of all children their first priority.
• Be a role model for fitness and environmental health.
• Be a role model for safe walking and cycling skills and awareness.
• Complete pledges to walk at least part way to and from school, even if they live at a distance.
• Commit to driving safely in the school zone to reduce risks to those walking and cycling.
• Become idle-free.
• Volunteer to help with campaigns and celebration days.
• Volunteer to help with bike safety education at school.
  

• Define how a travel-to-and-from-school initiative that measures emissions connects with your existing program.
• Explore the HASTE site to identify tools and resources that would help the most.
• Participate in webinar training.

• Provide time and space in school planning for assembly presentations.
• Distribute traffic safety information and encourage teachers to cover this subject.
• Provide budget support for emissions reduction programs and services.
• Provide support and encouragement for school site traffic safety/crossing patrollers programs and initiatives.
• Establish school newsletter/website space for campaigns and features.
• Take an active part in walk/bike to school days.
• Establish positive relationships with parents and police working on traffic reduction and traffic safety initiatives.
• Identify and report to the district about school involvement and value of initiatives.

• Provide principals with mechanism to communicate about respective campaigns or point them to the HASTE connect tools.
• Include key dates and initiative highlights in district communications and reports.
• Provide meeting space.
• Include delivery partners in District ProD days.
• Establish participation of district administrator and/or school trustee on municipal Traffic and Safety committee.
• Facilitate participation in campaign days by school trustees and district personnel.
• Endorse environmental, safety and health campaigns.
• Integrate principles of safe and environmentally aware school district vehicle use for transport and delivery.
• Install idle-free signage on school grounds.
• Ensure school ground design and planning that safely separates cyclists and pedestrians from vehicles.
• Ensure adequate bicycle racks in secure locations.

• Provide bicycle and pedestrian safety education opportunities at schools.
• Participate in campaign event days and celebrations.

• Include relevant stakeholders (school district and parents) on traffic and safety and environment/climate change council committee.
• Establish pedestrian and bicycle traffic needs assessment in and around schools.
• Work with parents and school administrators to provide safe route to school assessment and mapping.
• Assess needs for school zone signage and road marking at regular intervals.
• Coordinate endorsement of school program to reduce driving to and from school.
• Support enforcement of traffic by-laws.