Active Transportation Master Plan

Active School Travel Peterborough promotes the use of active and sustainable transportation for the daily trip to school, addressing health and traffic safety issues while taking action on air pollution and climate change. Each year, GreenUP works with schools in the City of Peterborough and Peterborough County to implement programs that encourage students to walk, cycle, and bus to school.

Let’s Bike is a community bike event for children and their families. Let’s Bike is staged as an outdoor fair, with stations that kids progressively work through to learn about bike equipment, safety, and handling skills. These events can be held in parks, at schools, or at community centers. Let’s Bike fosters excitement around bike skills need to ride safely and helps young riders become safe and confident. Let’s Bike also gives families an opportunity to connect with their communities, engage with others, and have fun - all while learning important road safety skills.

Student Travel Surveys are a yearly hands-up survey conducted for students, grades K to 8, in the City of Peterborough and Peterborough County. Student Travel surveys are held each November and help us understand travel habits of students year over year. Reports are generated to compare reported travel habits to STSCO catchment data, to determine areas where AST Ptbo, project partners and community stakeholders can help the school improve active travel and associated health outcomes.

Shifting Gears is a program designed to support Peterborough County residents adopt active and efficient transportation habits. Whether it’s walking, cycling, taking transit, carpooling, or remote working, Shifting Gears can help to make transportation shifts for health and wellbeing, for our community, and for the environment.

Additional details can be found on GreenUp’s website: Programs - GreenUP