What are the main causes impacting Walking / Biking to School?

- Traffic Safety

- One of the major reasons parents don’t allow their kids to walk or bike is traffic safety. In the 2004 National Survey this was 30.4% of the reason of why people did not walk or bike to school.

- In 2004 493 pedestrians and bikers 14 and under died while car accidents killed 1,638 people of this age. It is actually safer to walk or bike than it is to drive.

- Perceptions about traffic can lead to even less walking or bicycling. As more children are driven, more parents become convinced that traffic conditions make it unsafe for walking or bicycling and they join the line of cars at school.