Welcome to the C-U Safe Routes to School Project!

C-U Safe Routes to School Project’s (C-U SRTS Project) goal is to make it safer and more fun for students to walk and bike to school and to encourage more walking and biking. The C-U SRTS Project Steering Committee is composed of local community members, public health, planning and transportation professionals, local bicycle organizations, and school district that all play roles in making it more appealing and safer for students to walk, bike or roll to school. Underserved communities deserve particular attention as they more often walk and bike for transportation.

Snow Removal Program 2022-2023

​C-U SRTS Project is pleased to offer a program to assist schools and neighborhoods in providing students with safe routes to and from school and other destinations during the winter months.  The program will run from January to March 2022.  The Snow Removal Encouragement Program is intended to increase the number of neighborhood sidewalks that are cleared of snow.  It encourages neighbors to clear their sidewalks and driveways of snow so that children, and others, can walk to and from school and to other destinations without walking in the street.​

We are also asking for nominations of people and/or businesses who are exceptional snow removal volunteers to be rewarded and recognized as “Snow Angels” at MTD and Urbana School Board meetings. Nominees do not need to be signed up in our Snow Removal Program, but can be someone in your neighborhood who always clears their sidewalk and helps neighbors with their sidewalk too.

To participate or get more information, click below.

2022 Walk n' Roll to School Day - Wednesday, October 12

The Champaign-Urbana community celebrated International Walk n' Roll to School Day on Wednesday, October 12! WRTSD promotes walking as an active, sustainable, and fun way to get to school! We had U of I athletes, Urbana Mayor Diane Marlin, and several C-U SRTS volunteers join students at six elementary schools in the area  Check out the rest of the page to view fun pictures and videos of the various WRTSD events. 

Read the 2021-2022 C-U SRTS Annual Report!

The 2021-2022 C-U SRTS Annual Report has been released! Read through it to explore all the achievements, challenges, and goals of this past year.

Want to Learn Safety Skills at Home? Use the Online Learning section of our website

Check out the C-U SRTS Online Learning Package for fun activities!
Etch-a-sketch style Strava Drawings: The Strava app lets users track their bike rides, so some users have been getting creative and using their rides to draw fun pictures. Give it a try!
Practice walking or cycling along routes to school with your kids while streets are calm!

Mode Shift Fact Sheets

​You've probably known that bicycling has tons of benefit of keeping our environment green and keeping you in good shape, but do you know riding a bike will also be a complete game changer for you financially? Check our fact sheet to see the all the statistics of bicycling compared with driving, and find your own reason of getting on a bike in this coming spring!
C-U Safe Route to School project has hosted Walk to School Day in Urbana-Champaign for over ten years, and has received many smiles, laughs, thanks and high-fives along the way. Visit our archived photos to see what happened in previous year's event in Champaign-Urbana. 

Parent Resources 

Parents, how walkable and bikeable is your community? Take a walk or bike ride and use the checklists below to rate your neighborhood’s walkability and bikeability. 

Quick Links

C-U Safe Routes to School Project
1101 East University Avenue
Urbana, IL 61802
​217-384-8188
cusrtsproject@gmail.com