Videos
Safety Snippets
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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. -
Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons
A Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon also called a "hawk signal" is a special type of traffic signal that can help people cross the streets at locations were there are no other traffic signals.
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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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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Walkability Audit: Making your Community Walkable
A walkability audit is a great tool to identify barriers that make it difficult for people in your community of all ages and abilities to walk. This video will help you get started!
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Conducting Student Arrival and Departure Travel Tallies
This short video will show how quick and easy it is to conduct Safe Routes to School student arrival and departure travel tallies for grants and baseline data about how students really get to and from school.
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Completing a SRTS Student Arrival and Departure Tally
This short video shows how easy it is to complete a Safe Routes to School Student Arrival and Departure Tally which is required when applying for a Safe Routes to School infrastructure grant.
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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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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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Crossing Guard Training Video en español
Héroes del paso de peatones : Técnicas y Tácticas para New Jersey Crossing Guards
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Turning Movements
Motor vehicles turning left or right make intersections challenging for pedestrians
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Grants and Programs
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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. -
8.27.20 TA Set-Aside Grant Webinar Session #2
This is a recording of the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Grant Webinar which took place on August 27, 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. -
8.11.20 TA Set-Aside Grant Webinar Session #1
This is a recording of the Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside Grant Webinar which took place on August 11, 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. -
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Private video
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