Safe Routes to School

Every year in May we celebrate Bike Month. The League of American Bicyclists established May as National Bike Month in 1956.  It’s a way to encourage safe bicycling for work, pleasure, and [...]

In keeping with our themes for the last few weeks, we’re writing about Spring safety this week. Spring is here and more and more adults and their children spend time outdoors, biking, walking, [...]

Making it Safe for All to Share the Roads in Mercer County   Last week, we talked about some of our favorite walkable and bikeable places in Mercer County and Ocean County. You can read more [...]

There are only a few days left until we Spring Forward, which got us thinking about Step into Spring, our yearly campaign to encourage active transportation among school children. Why do we care [...]

Greater Mercer TMA’s (GMTMA) ninth annual Safe Routes to School Bookmark Design contest is now underway.  The contest is open to Mercer and Ocean County students in third through fifth grade are [...]

Walk to school day is October 6 and many schools in our area have scheduled events. During walk to school day, groups of school children across the country will be walking and biking to school.  [...]

This year back to school means getting out of the pajamas and out of the house! Besides shopping for new clothes and supplies, and planning school schedules– planning how to get to school [...]

Greater Mercer TMA (GMTMA) announced the winners of the eighth Safe Routes to School Bookmark Design Contest. Third through fifth graders in Mercer and Ocean County were asked to create a [...]

Every year on April 22 we celebrate Earth Day. The event is getting bigger every year, including a significant youth movement. Who hasn’t heard of Greta Thunberg and her pleas for climate action? [...]

Spring is finally here and not a moment too soon! More and more people and their children will spend time outdoors, biking, walking, rolling, and skating.  We’ve seen so many children roller [...]