U-M study shows not as many kids walk or bike to school

Most adults can remember riding their bike or walking to school growing up. The problem is not as many kids today will have those memories, according to a new study measuring how many kids walk or ride their bikes to school.

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Byoung-Suk Kweon, a researcher from the University of Michigan‘s Institute for Social Research, cites a 2004 national study that notes that throughout the United States, fewer than 13 percent of children walk or bike to school. It found that 85 percent of trips to school are made by car or school bus.

Even children who live close to school aren’t walking or biking there. Only 31 percent of children ages 5 to 15 who lived within a mile of school walked or biked in 2002 – compared to 90 percent in 1969, say researchers Ann Dellinger and Catherine Staunton, who have cooperated on several national studies.

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