PARENT SURVEY AND STUDENT TRAVEL TALLY RESULTS
When compared to the 2013 national SRTS combined walk and bike mode share numbers of 15.2 percent in the morning and 18.4 percent in the afternoon, the percentages of elementary students walking and bicycling to and from the New York Mills School (four percent morning, five percent afternoon) are below average. The Student Travel Tallies for both elementary and secondary / high school students returned similar walking and biking mode share numbers.
Even when only students who live within a perceived one-mile distance from the school are considered, only 15 percent of these children walk and/or bike to school in the morning. This number stays the same, at 15 percent, in the afternoon. One mile is an appropriate distance for most students attending the New York Mills School to walk and/or bike to school according to the MnDOT Walk / Bike Zone concept.
According to the Parent Survey, the school bus was the most frequently used mode of travel to and from school, followed by family vehicle.
Distance was the main reason some parents do not allow their children to walk or bicycle to and from school, followed by weather.
Safety factors, such as traffic speed and volume were chosen more frequently than crime or violence as barriers to children walking or biking to school.
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