The Hawaii Safe Routes to School Hui and One Voice for Livable Islands is a network of non-profit organizations, government agencies, schools, and professionals working together to advance the Safe Routes to School movement and healthy community design in the State of Hawaii.

The Hawaii Safe Routes to School Hui is part of a 20 state collaborative called the State Network Project led by the Safe Routes to School National Partnership.  Funding is provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente.

One Voice for Livable Island was founded following the successful Honolulu Charter 8 Ammendment where over 75% of Honolulu’s voters declared their support for a bicycle and pedestrian friendly city. In November, 2008 One Voice became a statewide coalition with a focus on Complete Streets. This group helped to pass Act 54, Hawaii’s Complete Streets Law.

Together, the Hawaii Safe Routes to School Hui and One Voice for Livable Islands help to bring the diverse bicycle, pedestrian and livable communities groups together to focus on clear objectives and outcomes that make Hawaii a healthy, safe and more livable community.

Hui and One Voice Partners include:

Natalie Iwasa, a.k.a. “The Bicycle Mom”
AARP Hawaii
City and County of Honolulu Bicycle Coordinator
Department of Education Facilities Division
USDOT Federal Highway Administration, Hawaii Division
Get Fit Kauai
Hawaii County Department of Public Works
Hawaii County Office of the Prosecuting Attorney
Hawaii State Department of Health, Injury Prevention
Hawaii State Department of Health, Healthy Hawaii Initiative
Hawaii State DOH, Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition
Hawaii Bicycling League
Hawaii Public Health Association
Honolulu Police Department
Kauai Path, Inc.
Kona Skatepark Association
National Park Service – Rivers Trails and Conservation Assistance Program
Hawaii Nutrition and Physical Activity Coalition (NPAC)
Parents and Children Together
PATH – Peoples Advocacy for Trails Hawaii

Our Focus Areas

The Hui formed to address persistent barriers to Safe Routes to School (SRTS) success in Hawaii.  The group is focused on the implementation of the federally mandated Safe Routes to School program and meets each month via teleconference to address the following key focus areas:

1. Low-Income – The transportation needs of low-income communities

2. Legislation- Reviewing existing policies to ensure that those policies that encourage walking and bicycling to school are fully implemented.

3. Joint-Use Agreements – Pursuing joint-use agreements with schools, churches, county gyms and other locations that enhance in-school/after-hours programming.

4. Fine-Based Mechanisms – Review of how traffic violations are enforced, how fines are collected and how those funds can be used to enhance traffic safety in the localities where the citations are happening.

5.  Crime Prevention – To ensure teh personal safety of students on their way to and from school.

6.  School Siting – Examining where schools are planned to be build and ensuring that thought is given to how students will get to and from the campus via walking and bicycling.

7.  Traffic Safety Curriculum – To promote the development and dissemination of Pedestrian and Bicycle Education in schools across the State of Hawaii.

8. Complete Streets – Pursuit of the completion of streets for all users of the roadway.

9. School Wellness Programs – Encouraging the development of walking and bicycling activities to help meet Hawaii’s School Wellness Policy.

10. School Bus Cuts – Addressing the impacts of school bus cuts by teaching how walking and bicycling can be good solutions for some families.