What does SR2S stand for?

Construction work on four new sidewalks that are part of the Safe Routes to School program will begin Monday, said Kimberly Qualls, spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Transportation.

If 700 students in a district started walking or biking a two-mile round-trip route to school instead of taking the bus, more than 11,500 pounds of carbon monoxide, as well as more than 230,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, would be kept out of the atmosphere in a school year, according to the National Safe Routes to School Task Force.

With the passage of Safe Routes to School within the 2005 reauthorization of the nation's surface transportation program, Safe Accountable Flexible Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), many new opportunities for enabling children to walk and bike to school were created, along with funding for implementation.

In all, 33 intersections near schools have been identified since 2003 as hazardous and targeted for upgrades under the Safe Routes to School program -- some with multiple improvements.

The department wants to make good on its Safe Routes to School pledge.

1m was allocated to the Safe Routes to School programme at 55 schools.

790m) n Merthyr Tydfil: public transport package (pounds 170,000) n RCT: Porth bus/rail interchange (pounds 200,000) n Vale of Glamorgan: Barry Central Station and Merrie Harrier roundabout and Cardiff Road bus lane (pounds 550,000) SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL n Bridgend: Ogmore Vale Primary School (pounds 100,000) n Cardiff: Cardiff West Schools (pounds 317,000) n Merthyr Tydfil: Coed-y-Dderwen Primary (pounds 100,000) n RCT: Cwmdare Primary, Aberdare; Maerdy Junior and Tonypandy Primary (pounds 238,000) n Vale of Glamorgan: St Richard Gwyn Comprehensive and Rhws Primary, Rhoose (pounds 198,000)

Our auditors insist we regularly review the list to ensure we are not subsidising safe routes to school.