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Marin-Sonoma Air Quality Resource Team

The Marin-Sonoma Air Quality Resource Team and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District are working in partnership to reduce traffic congestion at schools. In Marin County, Safe Routes to Schools continues to lead the way as a national model of traffic reduction at schools. The Marin model was made possible by hard work, innovative ideas and support from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

The Marin-Sonoma Air Quality Resource Team project is to expand traffic reduction efforts at schools in Sonoma County with the hope that they, too, will have a national model Safe Routes to School program in the near future.

In 2005 the resource team hosted a workshop on traffic reduction at schools for teachers, school administrators and students. Since then, several traffic reduction efforts are underway in Sonoma County. The team is currently working to support those efforts, which include Analy High School in Sebastopol and Kenilworth Middle School in Petaluma. Outreach efforts are also being made to Casa Grande High School in Petaluma. Three elementary schools (two in Sebastopol and one in Santa Rosa) will implement Safe Routes to School programs in 2006!

The team sponsored both Marin and Sonoma County Bike to Work Day efforts in May 2004. The team also sponsored a very successful Walk and Roll to School Day event at McDowell Elementary School in Petaluma in November 2004.

If you would like to join the team in its efforts to reduce traffic and increase safety at schools, please call Jim Smith at (415) 749-4631.

Member Organizations
511 Regional Rideshare Office of City Council Member Pam Torliatt
American Lung Association of the Redwood Empire Petaluma Bicycle Advisory Task Force
CarLite Petaluma Poultry
City of Petaluma Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition
City of Santa Rosa Sonoma County Climate Protection Campaign
Marin County Bicycle Coalition Sonoma County Department of Health Services
Marin County Safe Routes to School Program  

Other Bay Area Resource Teams
Spare the Air Resource Teams work on Spare the Air projects in their local communities throughout the Bay Area.

Spare the Air Resource Teams and Current Projects
Marin-Sonoma Air Quality Resource Team San Francisco-San Mateo Air Quality Resource Team
Napa Valley Clean Air Coalition Tri-Valley Air Quality Resource Team
Southern Alameda County Air Quality Resource Team Santa Clara County Air Quality Resource Team