Horsham primary and high school students have been telling The Bicycle Network how they get to school across this week.
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The network's Ride2School team is staging "active travel workshops" as it seeks to bring its Active Paths initiative - which will help more students ride and walk to school - to the city later this year.
Program co-ordinator Serman Uluca said Wimmera Health Care Group approached the organisation a few months ago about Active Paths, which has already been undertaken by 105 schools statewide.
"They said they wanted to get as many students walking and riding to school as possible and try and move away from everyone being driven," he said.
"We use information from students, parents and teachers that informs the process of deciding where the paths go."
The program will involve the network installing decals across the preferred paths in Horsham in the lead up to Walk to School month in October.
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Mr Uluca said on average 50 per cent of students from schools involved in the program had an active travel rate.
"But nationally only two out of ten students travel actively to school. That's considerably less than compared to the 70s and 80s, so we want to see the numbers track back up to the rates in those days when it was seven or eight out of ten," he said.
"Regional centres tend to be more car-dependent, which is surprising given more students tend to live closer to school, but it fluctuates in each area based on the different barriers to active travel."
Mr Uluca is meeting with students of Holy Trinity Lutheran College, Horsham West Primary, Horsham Primary and Ss Michael and Johns Primary schools between Monday and Wednesday.
Year 5 Ss Michael and Johns student Archie Elliot said he walked from his house on the edge of the city centre to school.
"I feel safe walking because there are not many cars that go down my streets as much as the main highway," he said.
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