Orcutt
-- Thousands of kids across the country and right here on the Central Coast
walked to school today to help raise awareness about healthy habits and getting
to school safely. More than 3-thousand schools across the country joined in
walk to school day today. The yearly event started back in 1997 to encourage
kids and parents to take part in active transportation like walking and biking and
to raise awareness about safe routes to school
Kathy
Puckett walks her grandson to school everyday and says, "it's a really scary
time because the kids are crossing between the cars, not all parents follow the
rules, they're parking letting their kid out at the curb some kids run across
the street."
Several
places in Santa Barbara County got federal and State Safe Routes To School
money to improve walking routes for kids. There are two projects in Orcutt
where sidewalk and crosswalk improvements are planned. Near Orcutt Junior High
& Orcutt Academy High School improvements will be made along Twitchell, Norris
and Clark to create a continuous pedestrian route. The total cost of the
projects is about 730-thousand dollars and the construction should be done next
summer.
