By Mike Cook
Las Cruces Public Schools already has the most successful Safe Routes to Schools (SRTS) program in New Mexico, and one of the best in the United States. Started in 2005, the program is still growing as it wraps up the current school year, moves into summer and looks forward to 2023-24.
Long-time SRTS Coordinator Ashleigh Curry works with teachers, principals, parents, students and volunteers and a wide range of community partners to grow walk and bike to school programs at every LCPS elementary school – in Las Cruces, Mesilla and Doña Ana and on White Sands Missile Range.
SRTS has some several big events coming up:
- Family Bike Fiesta (Fiesta de Bicicleta): 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday, April 29, at Lynn Middle School, 950 S. Walnut St. It will feature bike repair, a bike rodeo that includes Las Cruces Police Department Codes…