Safe Routes Updates & Events

Spring 2025 Update

Walk and Roll Events are planned at East Multnomah County Schools this spring. We will also be teaching scooter and bike lessons! Please contact us if you are interested in having us at your school or community group.

We are also partnering with bike works and the City of Gresham for Bike Month activities.

Jan 2025: High School Student Opportunities

Safe Routes to School is offering two new programs for high school students.

Sticker Design Contest!

Everyone loves stickers, so here's a chance to design one that will be distributed statewide!

The contest runs through February 28th. You can find all the details on the ODOT SRTS webpage, or by downloading these flyers:

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  Sticker Design Contest (134.08 KB)
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  Concurso de diseño de calcomanías (135.45 KB)

Statewide Task Force!

We are recruiting 5 high school students from around the state to be part of a task force which will help us shape the ODOT SRTS High School program. Students will be compensated $500 for their participation. The program will be from February-June 2025, averaging 5-7 hours of commitment per month. All meetings will be virtual, and students will be doing some engagement with their school communities.

The QR code on the flyer will take you to the application:

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  Fuerza De Tarea De Transporte De Escuelas Secundarias (120.28 KB)

Fall 2024 Update

Safe Routes to School is teamed up with bike works by p:ear, the City of Gresham, and the City of Portland to provide transportation safety programs in East Multnomah County. We now have a bike and scooter fleet for teaching safety lessons at schools and in the community. We are reaching out to schools and community groups to schedule lessons.

The Safe Routes team created a map that highlights the infrastructure projects near schools east of 122nd Avenue. This includes projects on roads owned by the City of Portland, City of Gresham, and Multnomah County. Due to the length of time that it takes to plan, design, and construct projects, we included projects that have been completed in the past five years, and projects that will be completed in the upcoming 5 years.

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  Map: East Multnomah County Safe Routes to School Investments (2.49 MB)

Each project is identified by:

• Jurisdiction: On the list of projects, turquoise indicates Portland, red for Multnomah County, and purple for Gresham
• Project completion: Green dots are completed projects and yellow dots are planned projects
• Cost range: Indicated by the size of the dot. Small dots are projects that cost between $1.5 K and $199 K. Large dots are projects that cost between $5.3M and $13M.

Summer Fun 2024 with Safe Routes to School

The Safe Routes team will be teaching bike and scooter safety in summer school, and will also be at community events. Join us this summer at these events:

Movies in the Park
Friday, July 26, 6-8pm
Pat Pfeifer Park
NE 172nd and NE Everett, Gresham
Come early to Movies in the Park! Bring your bike or scooter, or use one of ours. We will activate the Traffic Playground and you can learn some new skills before the movie starts!

Family Fun Night
Friday, August 2, 6-8pm
Donald Robertson Park
24300 NE Halsey, Wood Village
We will have the Bike Blender for fruit smoothies! And surprise activities!

Back to School Health Fair
Thursday, August 8, 10am-2pm
Rockwood Market Hall
458 SE 185th, Gresham
Win prizes as you learn healthy ways to get to school.

Rock the Block
Friday and Saturday, August 23 and 34
Rockwood Market Hall
458 SE 185th, Gresham
Times and activities TBD

Bike Rodeo

We held a bike rodeo on Saturday, March 30, 2024 at Davis Park in Rockwood.

Our bike team helped new riders learn how to ride, and people put their bike skills to the test on our obstacle course.

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  Flyer: Bike Rodeo | Rodeo en Bicecleta (434.86 KB)