Videos
Safety Snippets
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How to Safely Pass a Person Riding a Bicycle
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Safe Routes Safety Snippets: How to lock your bike
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Safe Routes Safety Snippets: Signalized Intersections
Crossing the street while at a signalized intersection isn’t always straight forward. View this short video to learn how to safely cross at intersections with traffic lights.
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Safe Routes Safety Snippets: Crosswalks
People who walk can safely cross at an intersection, whether marked or unmarked
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Safe Routes Safety Snippets: Distracted Driving
Distracted driving is dangerous to pedestrians and other road users. This short video shows how slowing down while driving can save lives.
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Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons
Rectangular rapid flashing beacons (RRFB) are a set of flashing yellow warning lights used with pedestrian crossing signs to increase visibility of people crossing the street.
Safe Routes Academy
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Safe Routes Academy: A Vision for Safety -The New Jersey Strategic Highway Safety Plan
New Jersey’s vision is to achieve zero deaths on all public roads. Join us for an update on the New Jersey 2020 Strategic Highway Safety Plan which includes goals, objectives, performance measures, and a specific bicycle and pedestrian emphasis area to guide safety programs and investments and help reduce highway fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads. This wide-ranging plan focuses not only on physical improvements to the roadway system in order to reduce the frequency and severity of crashes, but also includes education and outreach efforts aimed at changing road user behavior to promote a culture of safety.
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Safe Routes Academy: No Money No Problem. Meet Your NJ Safe Routes Coordinator
More children and youth are walking and bicycling in and around their neighborhoods, increasing the need for safety education, programs, and resources. Safe Routes Regional Coordinators from New Jersey's eight Transportation Management Associations (TMAs) are funded through a partnership with the NJ Department of Transportation (NJDOT) to provide free technical assistance to help your school or community address safer conditions for walking and bicycling. In this session, we will discuss some of the resources and programs available through Safe Routes Regional Coordinators who can help to provide the inspiration and education needed to keep families walking and bicycling. Participants will meet the TMA staff who serve their municipality and learn more about how they can support your community.
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Safe Routes Academy: Fund your Project-Tips and Strategies for Successful Grant Applications
There are funding opportunities available for communities to implement a range of improvements and programs to make walking and bicycling safer, easier, and more accessible modes of travel for all. Join us and learn about the types of grant funding available – from larger federal and state grants to smaller health and sustainable community grants. Participants will walk away with ideas on how to find the grants that align with walking and bicycling goals in their community, and tips and strategies for developing successful grant applications.
For more information about funding opportunities, visit the Safe Routes website at: https://www.saferoutesnj.org/grants-funding-overview/
and the Local Aid Resource Center at https://njdotlocalaidrc.com/
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Safe Routes Academy: Building Municipal Support for Better Streets
How do you get started identifying and addressing pedestrian and bicycle opportunities and concerns in your community? How do you adopt Complete and Green Streets in your municipality? How do you formalize a local committee? Local advocates from several New Jersey communities will share lessons learned and methods and tactics that have worked for them to build local support and adopt and implement Complete and Green Streets policies. This session will help you identify potential partners within your community, create important partnerships among other stakeholders, and generate ideas and actions to make walking and bicycling safer and more desirable modes of transportation.
Learn more about getting started and building a team: https://www.saferoutesnj.org/getting-started/
Safe Routes in NJ Schools and Communities
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Bound Brook Youth Engagement
Inspired by the youth in Bound Brook, the high school students worked collaboratively with their town, Rutgers Bloustein graduate students, RideWise, Somerset County planning and other organization to improve their downtown and make it safer for them to walk and bike in Bound Brook by creating beautiful, colorful and artistic crosswalks and street murals and a parklet. So cool! -
Between Places: Route 130 and the Burlington City High School
Route 130 is a high volume, multi lane route in Burlington City that is considered one of the most dangerous roads for walking in NJ. Students and pedestrians must cross to get to school and in 2016, a Burlington City High School student was tragically killed while trying to cross route 130. As a result, students have galvanized to participate in helping make the crossing safer.
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Fair Haven, NJ - Third Street Community Connection
Fair Haven, NJ works with the schools to close down Third Street which is a local connector road between the Elementary School and Middle School during arrival and dismissal so that students and parents can walk and bike safely to school.
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Trenton Bikefest
Greater Mercer TMA and many other partners teamed up with the Greenwood Ave Farmers Market in Trenton to hold Bikefest!
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Walking to School In Newton: A Community Experience
Newton students walk and bike to school on safe routes chaperoned by police officers, crossing guards, and parents. Newton schools superintendent describes how walking to school brings the community together and promotes healthy lifetime habits.
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Bike Education in Jersey City
A Jersey City school hosts a fun and successful bike safety program sponsored by Hudson TMA, the county's transportation management association. Contact your TMA to find out how your school can host its own program.
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How-To
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Before You Ride: ABC Quick Check
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How to Fit a Helmet
For safety, you need to know how to fit your helmet properly to protect your head. This short video demonstrated the proper way to fit your helmet. -
Teaching Children Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety: Bicycle Safety
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Teaching Children Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety: Pedestrian Safety
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Teaching Children Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety: Characteristics of Young Children
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How to do a Bike Audit in your community
A bike audit is a great tool to identify barriers that may make it difficult for people of all ages and abilities to bike. A bike audit is a great way to not only identify observations about physical conditions and feelings of comfort and safety, but also provide a different mindset and view of bicycling for participants who don’t or infrequently ride.
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Promoting Safe Routes
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Find your local NJ Safe Routes to School Coordinator
Safe Routes to School Coordinators throughout NJ offer free technical assistance to your school and community to encourage children to walk and bike to school, where it is safe. Servicing all 21 counties in NJ find out how they can help and who to contact.
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Bicycling is Empowering!
Bicycling gains confidence, self-esteem, independence -- getting to school or wherever kids want to go -- all while having fun!
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Is Zero Achievable?
How many crashes do you think take place annually in NJ? The current number of crashes is far more than you may think, and the number of fatal crashes may surprise you even more. Is zero an achievable number of fatal crashes in New Jersey? -
Celebrate Walk to School Day in New Jersey
Celebrate walk and bike to school in New Jersey! Find out how!
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The Complete Streets Movement In New Jersey (Short Version)
What are Complete Streets? NJDOT highlights communities throughout NJ that have made improvements so that people who walk, bike, or drive can do so safely
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Things Parents Say (short version)
Developed by NJ Safe Routes, supported by NJDOT with funds from Fed Hwy Admin and compiled from survey responses and conversations with parents at meetings and informal discussions, the video conveys common answers when parents are asked why they do not let their children walk and bike to school. These comments are followed by what children say they like about walking and biking to school.
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Crossing Guard Training
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8 Steps of the Crossing Guard Procedure
This Crossing Guard training video includes a review of the 8 steps of the crossing procedure to show best practice in safely crossing students. -
Use of the STOP Paddle
The STOP paddle is one of the most important tools crossing guards have to help them be visible to drivers. This brief video reviews proper use of the STOP paddle. -
Post Observation Report Form
Crossing guard supervisors use the post observation report form to document conditions that might affect the safety of crossing guards and child pedestrians. This video walks through use of the form. -
Improving School Crossings
Traffic safety officers in New Brunswick, NJ have taken several steps to improve the safety of their crossing guards and the children they help on their way to and from school. The Improving School Crossings video demonstrates relatively inexpensive strategies that police departments can adopt to improve the safety of their school crossings. The video addresses not only improvements to infrastructure, but also approaches to crossing guard supervision, empowerment of crossing guards to think about how their posts can be improved, and collaboration with the municipality, county, and school district to address hazardous conditions. -
Crossing Guard Training Program Video
Crosswalk Heroes: Techniques and Tactics for New Jersey Crossing Guards to safely cross children, parents and other walkers on their way to school.
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NJ Crossing Guard Placement Video
This film reviews three key actions you can take that will provide structure and support to your crossing guard post placement decisions. These key actions are developing a Crossing Guard Post policy with supporting criteria, communicating change, and lastly, carrying out an annual crossing guard post review.
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Grants and Programs
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8.19.21 Applying for Federal 2022 Safe Routes to School Program
Safe Routes to School Grant Training webinar which was conducted live on August 19, 2021. -
7.13.21 Applying for Federal 2022 Safe Routes to School Program
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Map your project for a Safe Routes Grant Application Using Google Maps
This quick and simple video will show you how to create your own map that highlights your Safe Routes to School project and any nearby schools using Google maps. -
6.15.21 Applying for Federal 2022 Safe Routes to School Program
This is a recording of the Safe Routes to School Grant funding information session held on June 15, 2021. This session is presented by the New Jersey Safe Routes Resource Center at Rutgers University and provides participants with information about applying for Safe Routes to School grants administered by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) in partnership with the State’s three Metropolitan Planning Organizations.
Topics covered:
Overview of Federal Aid programs and the Safe Routes to School Program
Detailed Review of the Safe Routes to School Grant Application
Grant Application Process
Grant Resources, Tips & Strategies
Q&A with NJDOT Local Aid Staff
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9.30.20 TA Set-Aside Grant Information Session #4
This is a recording of the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Grant Webinar which took place on September 30, 2020 at 3pm. For more information and to view a copy of the presentation and handouts, visit saferoutesnj.org/funding and click Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside grants. -
9.17.20 TA Set-Aside Grant Webinar Session #3
This is a recording of the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Grant Webinar which took place on September 17, 2020 at 10am. For more information and to view a copy of the presentation and handouts, visit saferoutesnj.org/funding and click Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside grants.