Doug Addison ➤ Prophetic Word "God Is Waking You Up Right Now"
The Way2Go program is incredibly important
for the wellbeing of our communities
and the wellbeing of our children.
One of the things the Way2Go program is renowned for
is operating on a really solid database
so we look at a lot of information in how to create
interventions for safer, greener, more active travel.
We know now that most children would prefer to be
walking riding, skating, scooting to school
because it's fun and because they like being active
and they like the social interaction with friends.
We also know, contrary to popular myth,
that most parents would rather their children were being active as well
but they have legitimate concerns and fears
about the safety of that happening
so if we can create safer environments around schools
we make it safer for children, safer for the entire community
and that leads to those benefits
from being healthy, active, reducing obesity
learning independence and importantly
reducing congestion and making the roads safer
And the essence of Way2Go is in the partnership
and collaboration between all of the parties involved
that's the schools, local Government
and the state Government itself.
We work with the whole range of schools
independent schools, state schools and Catholic schools right across the state
one of the popular components of Way2Go is Way2Go BikeEd
and that's a practical program
schools book into that each year
up to 120 students per cohort
students have to be between 9-13 years old up to 120 students per cohort
students have to be between 9-13 years old
so they're usually year fives
they start off practicing their riding skills
in the school ground and then they graduate
to actually safe riding on the roads
and the instructors have already planned the routes
on the most appropriate roads to ride on
when schools have done BikeEd
and they've got a lot of kids riding their bikes when schools have done BikeEd
and they've got a lot of kids riding their bikes
but they don't have sufficient shelter
We facilitate some funding so that they can support that.
We know through our work in the program that
a large proportion of Primary aged children live
within a few kilometres of their school
and our approach is to partner with Councils in South Australia
to try and improve these local school precincts
to make it safer for kids to walk and cycle
One part of what we offer is
funding to contribute to local Government
to complete small scale infrastructure projects funding to contribute to local Government
to complete small scale infrastructure projects
things such as
it can be a formal school crossing
but also such things as narrowing the road
or improving the footpath
and cycling or walking access to the school
and we try to value-add on what council is already doing
as part of their role
so we work with local Government traffic engineers
and review the end of school days
and then we liaise with the school leadership
and school community to find ways to improve that safety and access.
at the moment the program has 40-plus
local Government partners onboard
and every year new Councils join the program
The feedback we've had from Councils
that have participated in the program is that
they get a lot of value out of it
and they're really happy with an evidence based approach
which allows them to work out where
they can best help their local school which allows them to work out where
they can best help their local school
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