Traffic Jam to Portland Schools

Capitol Hill Elementary, Southwest Portland

Thursday, Sept. 9 – 2 p.m.
Photos by Lisa Bauso

Capitol Hill Elementary has one of the lowest bike and walk “mode shares” of the 72 schools participating in the Safe Routes to School program – only 10 percent of the school’s 350 students walk or bike. “Part of it is there are no sidewalks,” said Patti Henry, the parent of a 3^rd-grader.

Twice a week, Henry also has to be at work by 7:30 a.m., which makes it difficult for her to walk or bike the 1½-mile distance with her daughter.

“I rode my bike every single day: elementary, junior, and high school,” Henry said. “The fact that my daughter doesn’t – I’m really struggling with it.”

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