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I’m in support of this bill as a way to help safely get our kids to school, while using an environmentally friendly form of transportation. Secondly, the Bike Bus teaches safety, creates community and forms lasting relationships.

I support all active transportation initiatives - especially bike buses and walk buses for students.

My name is Justine Blincoe, I am the Policy Director of Greater Richmond Fit4Kids. We support HB 937. This is an important opportunity to promote active forms of student transportation. Many students rely on walking, biking, and rolling to school each day. This bill will help ensure that they are able to do so safely, alongside their peers, led by a trusted adult. Traveling together in a walk or bike bus helps reduce absenteeism, builds social skills, and teaches pedestrian safety. It is also fun! Please consider the safety and health of our students, and vote yes on HB 937. Thank you!

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Please find my letter in support of HB937 - supporting active student transportation - attached. Thank you

As someone who lives close to schools, I support bills that offer students transportation alternatives. Innovative approaches such as bike buses are safe, reduce traffic congestion, teach students skills they can use throughout their lives (namely that riding a bicycle is a viable form of transportation), and cut government costs.

This bill would be incredibly important to my community, my neighbors, and the future of Virginia. Active student transportation like bike buses and walking school buses make an incredible difference in the community and students lives. I've helped volunteer to organize and chaperone some of them (here's a video! https://pss.pm/bikebus-dec1) — it's something that has brought together students across ages, teachers, parents, public safety officials and other public servants. It has so many benefits for the students, to do something active before they get to school, on their health and wellbeing. And likewise, this is an incredibly impactful and inspiring way to save costs and create benefits in our community — as the climate emergency worsens. These are the transitions we need to be making, and thank you for championing it. It will make a big difference on levels of pollution, youth wellbeing, and ultimately the kind of communities and state we have here in Virginia. Whether it's a place that people want to bring their kids up in, and bring on new generations.

support active student transportation! it's great for their well being in so many regards: physical health, mental health, agency and participation in the world, comfort and security in their neighborhoods, etc. etc.. also the bus system is expensive and harried, give them a break and support more students walking and biking!

I strongly support legislation that advances healthy transportation options for kids including biking and walking.

I organize a bikebus for our neighborhood's elementary school. Our bikebus has brought a lot of joy to the kids who participate. Besides the fun they get to have riding to school and the obvious physical benefits, studies show children who walk and bike to school have increased brain activity and are better prepared to start their school day. We should be doing everything possible to encourage more activities like this. I support this bill and hope that more bills that provide funding for safer, better infrastructure soon follow.

Walking school bus programs are a GREAT way to help busy parents, connect generations and families, and make sure everyone gets exercise (with socialization), as well as offering important pedestrian safety. It's a no-brainer, and especially in areas with multi-family housing. An investment that connects people and neighborhoods, helps the environment, takes cars off the road. Bike to school groups do a similar thing for older students. Resources to teach both individual and group bike safety are essential. This is a SOCIAL activity. I'm ancient, but I remember walking to junior high in Bethesda, home for lunch, back for the afternoon, and home again: 1.5 miles each way, so 6 miles total daily, thanks to 1950s suburban sprawl subdivisions with limited/no sidewalks. There were NO safe bike routes, curving hilly streets, and little biking culture. In DC I had done this more easily, on sidewalks, on a street grid.

All Virginia school boards should continue to seek healthy viable transportation alternatives for their students without fear of losing transportation funds for those that require it. We can encourage innovation without the fear of penalty by passing this bill.

This bill is incredibly important for the children in our community and the safety of our city as a whole. As a resident of Richmond city (zip code 23220) I support this Bill!

My name is Mary Dunne Stewart, I am the Director of Greater Richmond Fit4Kids, a local nonprofit dedicated to improving children’s health and wellness in the Richmond region. Fit4Kids offers innovative programs that promote physical activity and nutrition in schools, as well as community education and family engagement, to support building healthy habits for the whole family. I am writing in support of HB 937.

 Our organization oversees the Richmond City Safe Routes to School program, which encourages students to walk and bike safely to school. We have seen multiple benefits of students using active transportation to get to school, including building daily physical activity into the school day, reducing absenteeism, and building community with other students. For some students, using active transportation, whether it is walking, biking, or rolling to school, is their only mode of transport. We want to ensure that this is done safely, and in community with others when possible, through walking and/or biking school buses. This bill would help make this possible, by ensuring that walk/bike buses are supported and planned, with established leaders who are compensated and consistently able to lead. Walking/biking school buses are especially important for younger students who rely on active transportation, in the event that a parent is unable to walk or roll on a given day.  
Please support HB 937! 

I am in full support of providing safe, alternative routes to school for children that removes transportation barriers. Most students do not have access to safe transportation and providing more ways for them to get to, and stay in school should be top priority.

I am writing to express enthusiastic support for HB181, HB187, HB748, and HB937 as an educator and strong advocate of reducing VMT as a way to combat the climate crisis. HB748 is a fantastic way to mitigate the climate crisis, by providing incentives for e-bikes. Most car trips are under 3 miles, and an electric assist bicycle can obviate some of the disadvantages of using a standard bicycle. Reducing VMT, meanwhile, remains a crucial part of slowing the climate crisis. It's not enough just to have more electric cars - we need fewer cars, period, and e-bikes are a great solution! I support 937 as an advocate of Safe Routes to Schools programs for similar reasons. Active transportation to get to school - like bike buses, walking, etc. - are also wonderful for kids' mental health and physical fitness. I support 181 because it will be good for both students and counselors. And as a teacher, I know how underpaid educators are and 187 will help fix that.