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Trenton Bikefest
The Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market helps Trenton residents to lead healthy lives by providing nutritious food choices. Recognizing that health and physical activity are critical to healthy lives, the farmers market partners annually with the Greater Mercer Transit Management Association (Greater Mercer TMA), the New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids [...]
Walking to School is a Community Experience in Newton!
Merriam Avenue School in Newton, a town in Sussex County, holds several walk to school parades each year. The school works with the police department, parents, and the Safe Routes to School Coordinator from TransOptions, the area’s transportation management association, to plan and host the parades. Newton is a small [...]
October Walk and Bike to School Activities
Schools across New Jersey participated in this year's Walk & Bike to School Month, which occurs each October. "Walktober" is a month of celebrating the benefits that the whole community experiences when kids take the active route to school by ditching the car and walking or biking. In the towns featured here, [...]
2016 TAP Grant Recipients
Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) grants fund non-traditional transportation projects like bicycle and pedestrian paths, preservation of historic canals, streetscaping, stormwater runoff management, and other projects designed to strengthen the cultural, aesthetic and environmental aspects of the nation's intermodal system. TAP grants are federally funded and administered by the NJ Department [...]
Jersey City Students Learn Bike Safety – Check out our video!
Students from Whitney Young School, PS 15 in Jersey City learn about bike safety during physical education classes. Using a fleet of bikes and a bicycle safety curriculum from the Safe Routes to School Director at Hudson Transportation Management Association (Hudson TMA), students learn bicycle safety skills like proper helmet usage, [...]
Plainfield School District Travel Plan Earns 2017 Smart Growth Award
NJ SRTS Resource Center staff Leigh Ann Von Hagen and Sean Meehan, together with partners from the Plainfield Public School District and the City of Plainfield, received a 2017 NJ Future Smart Growth Award for the state’s first district-wide school travel plan. The plan resulted from a fall 2016 graduate studio at [...]