The Massachusetts Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program promotes healthy alternatives for children and parents in their travel to and from school. It educates students, parents and community members on the value of walking and bicycling for travel to and from school. Forty-five students from the Tansey Elementary School celebrated the Massachusetts Walk and Bike To School Day on May 1, 2013, by riding their bikes to school. "This is the second year that Tansey School administrators and teachers, the Fall River Police Department, School Wellness coordinator Marcia  Picard, and the Fall River Bicycle Committee worked together to create a fun, safe event," commented Mass In Motion coordinator Julianne Kelly who helped to organize the events. Students at the Tansey School were also among 6,500 students who walked to school on that same day. Click here for a two-and-a-half minute video of the event. Click here for the Herald News story. For more information about the program, contact Fall River Mass In Motion coordinator Julianne Kelly, at 508-324-2405.
 

(Top row) Tansey students line up at the corner of Hood and Highland Avenue awaiting the start of the ride to their school, about a half mile away. (Row two, left) Ana Pacheco accompanies four-year-old Thomas on his tricycle along Highland Avenue while cyclist reach the crossing at Robeson and Weetamoe. (Row four, right) Mass In Motion coordinator Julianne Kelly, in white on the right, accompanies the children on the ride to the school that she helped to organze with School Principal Kristin Farias. (Bottom row) the group coasts down Ray Street as Fall River Police Officer Matt Silvia, who taught the children bicycle safety the week before, observes at the school yard as Rose Strong look on.

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