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Back to School, Back to Safety: Let’s Keep the Roads Safe for Everyone
As flip-flops are traded for sneakers, neighborhoods across New Jersey shift gears for the return to school. It’s not just kids who are adjusting to new routines, it’s drivers too. Drivers must reacquaint themselves with slower speeds, busier crosswalks, and the morning buzz of students moving through their communities. With [...]
Safe Routes Throughout New Jersey: July 2025
Safe Routes Regional Coordinators from eight Transportation Management Associations (TMAs) throughout New Jersey are ready, willing, and able to offer FREE technical assistance in Safe Routes programs in communities from all 21 counties. Find your local Safe Routes Coordinator here. Check out what our TMA's have been doing recently: [...]
Students Take the Lead as Governor Murphy Signs New Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety Law
When Governor Phil Murphy signed landmark legislation on July 17, 2025, to strengthen driver education and improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety, it wasn’t just lawmakers and transportation advocates standing proudly beside him, it was the voices of the students. For the youth of Burlington City High School and West [...]
Safe Routes Throughout New Jersey: June 2025
Safe Routes Regional Coordinators from eight Transportation Management Associations (TMAs) throughout New Jersey are ready, willing, and able to offer FREE technical assistance in Safe Routes programs in communities from all 21 counties. Find your local Safe Routes Coordinator here. Check out what our TMA's have been doing recently: [...]
NJDOT Congratulates the 2025 New Jersey Safe Routes to School Recognition Program Winners
New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Commissioner Fran O’Connor, the New Jersey Safe Routes Resource Center, and New Jersey’s eight Transportation Management Associations (TMAs) are proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the NJ Safe Routes to School Recognition Program. This year, 357 school and municipal winners are being recognized [...]
How a YouTube Rabbit Hole Led Me to Fight for Safer Streets in My Community
This article is a reprint from the April, 2025 edition of the Ridellion Reporter at River Dell High School in Oradell, NJ, written by student Abdullah Elzawawy.It explores his experiences and contributions to addressing Complete Streets and Safe Routes to School. Reprinted with the author’s permission. How a YouTube Rabbit Hole Led Me to Fight [...]