Fact Sheet: Safe Routes to Healthy Food

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Everyone needs a safe and reliable way to get to the place where they obtain foods – ideally healthy foods. However, transportation is a major barrier to accessing healthy food, particularly for Latinos.

Read about how traffic safety in the U.S. lags far behind other countries here. Disparities in transportation environments are not inevitable; they are due to local decision‐making.

The Safe Routes to School National Partnership created a Safe Routes to Healthy Food fact sheet exploring the benefits of making healthy food accessible by foot, bike, or transit.

Safe Routes to Healthy Food aims to strengthen policies and practices that make it safer and more convenient to walk, bike, and use transit to access healthy foods.

People with access to safe places to walk and bike are less likely to be overweight or obese and have reduced risk for chronic disease. Check out these infographics about the numerous benefits of walking and how to make communities more walkable here.