Hub for Action on School Transportation Emissions
HASTE is a new project that supports schools and their communities taking action on reducing transportation emissions in British Columbia. It's an online resource and networking centre, designed to help students, teachers and schools improve the health of individuals, communities and the environment.
If this is your first time here, we invite you to click on the yellow button to the right for an introduction to HASTE and some of the tools and resources it has to offer.
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Frank Hobbs Elementary Walking School Bus
Our project began a few years ago when we participated in Saanich's Safer City, Safer School Travel Program. Once we had established and improved our safest routes to school we began an intensive effort to reduce the number of cars used to transport children to and from school.
Our program has been growing and we have now have a firmly established walking/bicycling train with new routes under development. We are now beginning to introduce WOW days (Walk on Wednesdays. The WOW days will encourage students/families to meet at general meet and walk locations. The idea is to develop relationships within the community that will support the development of more walking school buses. Our long term goal is to increase our alternative transportation from an average of 50 percent to 85 percent (achieved on IWALK day this year).
Check out the Ministry of Education's profile of Frank Hobbs Elementary's Walking School Bus Program.
