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Thanks to the winning post by Shane Rhodes of Eugene, Oregon, $500 will be donated to Greater Eugene Area Riders, a recreation and advocacy organization working directly in that community to make cycling safe, accessible, and fun.
Once again, the winning entry was selected using an internet-based random number generator.
Shane Rhodes is the Safe Routes to School Program Manger with the 4J School District, where he says “we use a community approach to encourage and enable more people to walk and bike to school safely.”
Shane is quick to emphasize the collaborative team that works to make the Safe Routes to School program effective. This team includes a University of Oregon professor, a pediatric physician, a nonprofit executive director, as well as staff from the City of Eugene and the Lane Transit district.
It is this collaborative leadership approach that is ensuring the success of more and more efforts all over the nation to improve the common good.
Shane adds, however, that there are still “many projects that we are working on that could use funding,” including a new bike parking structure at Roosevelt Middle School and a program that rewards kids for biking to school by using technology such as RFID tags placed in the students helmet.”
Shane adds that bus service is a vital part of school transportation, and despite cuts in that area “we’re looking to use the Safe Routes to School program as a response to those cuts so that parents don’t begin to drive their students to school and therefore increase congestion and safety issues even more. We’ve seen how high gas prices have an effect on parents’ transportation choices. When gas prices rise, parents are more likely to encourage their children to walk or bike to school.”
Do you want to direct $500 to a nonprofit of your choosing? Make a comment anywhere on this site! Two more winners will be selected each week. If you win, we’d be glad to hear more about you and the agency you choose, but if you choose to remain anonymous, that’s fine too.
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