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Transportation Choices

A considerable portion - as much as 25 percent by some estimates - of commute time automobile trips are due to transporting students to school.

The transportation choices category is designed to help school staff, students and parents reduce or eliminate modes of transportation that pollute the air, negatively affect human health, and increase carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Schools and districts can reduce their impact on climate change by encouraging and facilitating alternative transportation such as walking, bicycling, riding the school bus and carpooling.

For information on how your school or district can expand and improve transportation choices for students, parents and staff, review the ideas and tips listed in the transportation choices criteria. There is one set of criteria for schools and another for school districts.

Schools and school districts may select transportation choices as one of the optional categories in either level two or level three of the King County Green Schools Program. Completing the transportation choices criteria fulfills one of the requirements toward receiving recognition as a level two or level three King County Green School or Green School District. See how the program works.

Criteria and Resources

Transportation Choices - School Criteria (Microsoft Word document, 103 k)
Transportation Choices - School District Criteria (Microsoft Word document, 105 k)
Transportation Choices Resources

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