YNDC Awarded 188 Bicycle Helmets from Ohio AAP

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

YNDC was awarded 188 bicycle helmets for Youngstown City School students through Ohio AAP's "Put a Lid On It" Bike Helmet Safety Awareness Program.

Helmets will be distributed at pedestrian and bicycle safety demonstrations at elementary schools in the district as part of the city's Safe Routes to School program. The Safe Routes program seeks to provide safe environments and teach safe behaviors to students who arrive to school by means of active transportation, such as walking or bicycling. The City of Youngstown has applied for grant funding through ODOT to fund a part-time Safe Routes to School coordinator who would plan safety demonstrations and obtain additional resources to encourage safe walking and bicycling to and from school. The City also applied for funding to improve infrastructure, such as sidewalks, crosswalks, and pedestrian crossing signals, around McGuffey and Williamson Elementary Schools. Funding determinations will be made by ODOT within the next few months.