Lakewood’s 2024 Walking School Bus guide, a pamphlet PSA highlighting the age-old benefits of ditching four wheels, urges parents to be aware of a kind of paradox: reaping the health perks of taking the sidewalk while also staying clear of cars.

“Students are expected to walk responsibly the entire way, stay on the sidewalk, be extra cautious at all intersections, and obey all traffic signals,” the guide reads , amongst suggested roads and routes.

“Parents are encouraged to walk with their own child(ren),” it adds, “until they are confident their student(s) can walk to school responsibly.”

Starting late next year, that walk from the front porch to school lobby will get a smidge less worrisome for parents. (Especially those of Horace Mann Elementary.)

And for Lakewooders in general.

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