Finally, no rain! The bike train is ON! Join Ms Luck, Mr Jones and special guest Principal Heiges for Wednesday’s bike train!
Day two results for the Bike/Walk Challenge have been posted. We’re doing much better, thanks to everyone who’s been walking and biking. Keep it up!
Join us in walking or biking to school for the Vienna Bike/Walk Challenge May 14-18. See below for details.
The Marshall Road Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program is committed to helping provide our children with safe walking routes to school by working with the Town of Vienna on current and future sidewalk projects, as well as supporting other local elementary school’s SRTS programs and efforts. SRTS sponsors a number of programs during the school year including Walk to School Week. SRTS also works with the school on matters of student safety regarding school grounds and roadways near the school.
Have you noticed some yellow signs popping up on your block giving Notice of Public Hearing? The Virginia Department of Transportation has recently deemed our neighborhood streets as “regionally significant” due to our close proximity with the Vienna Metro station. Streets in our area will receive sidewalks with 100% funding from VDOT. More sidewalks means safer ways for our students to walk to school! The Vienna Town Council will be holding a public hearing on the matter on Monday, May 7th at 7pm. Please consider attending and voicing your support for this important project. If you are unable to attend, send the mayor and town council an email, everything helps.
Update: The Town Council voted unanimously to proceed with the design phase of the sidewalk projects. Thank you for your overwhelming support! We still have work to do after the design comes in and we move to the construction phase, stay tuned.
Upcoming events:
- The May 9th bike train was a big success, with Mr. Jones and Ms. Luck joining the bike train for Bike to School Day! Over 50 students rode their bikes to school and received “toe tokens” as a reward. If your student rode to school and did not receive a token, contact Brian Dauernheim at saferoutes@marshallroadpta.org and we will make sure they get one.
- Vienna Bike/Walk to School Challenge (May 14-18th). We need adult volunteers to count our bikers and walkers and hand out tokens, as well as join the bike train. Sign up here to volunteer. Don’t forget your helmet and lock! Every student who either walks OR bikes to school during this week will receive a toe token for EACH day that they walk or ride.
- The Bike Train will run every day during the bike/walk challenge. We will leave from Meadow Lane Park at 8:30am and follow this route.
For more information on SRTS or to volunteer to help lead future bike trains, contact Brian Dauernheim at saferoutes@marshallroadpta.org.
