Midvale Elementary School students walk to school in Midvale Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY -- Back in the day, we walked five miles in all weather conditions to get to school.
Walking to school has changed. High speed roads, railroad tracks, congested intersections, open waterways, bullying and sexual predators. Getting to school on foot today can be dangerous.
Byoung-Suk Kweon, an environmental and landscape architecture researcher at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR), in an interview with Science Daily said, Concerns about safety are the main reason that less than 13 percent of U.S. children walked or biked to school in 2004, compared to more than 50 percent who did so in 1969.
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