School Route Plans

• There are no legal regulations on this.
• The head teachers of elementary school usually recommend to what extent their pupils should cycle to school.
• Primary school pupils usually take a cycling test in the fourth grade, the successful completion of which should enable them to participate in road traffic.
• We therefore only recommend cycling to school from year 5, the secondary school.

• Children 8 years of age or younger must bike on the sidewalk. A parent or other guardian 16 years of age or older may accompany the bicycling child under the age of eight on the sidewalk.
• Children up to age 10 may bicycle on the sidewalk.
• All other road users must use the street or, if available, the bike lane. There is an exception if the sidewalk is opened for bicycle traffic by the sign "Rad frei".

For the bike school routes, the aim is to keep traffic as low as possible. Roads with speed limits of 30 km/h are generally considered suitable for bicyclists. Continuous bike lanes will be provided along the main bike routes in the coming years.

There is a coordinator at the Department of Public Instruction for the creation of the Bike to School Plans.

• The bike to school plans show suggestions on how students can ride their bikes to school from home as safely as possible.
• Difficult places where special care is required are indicated by appropriate symbols (e.g. Z-crossings at railroad tracks, busy junctions and crossings, ...).
• In some cases, alternative routes are also indicated for individual routes, which can also be appealing to inexperienced cyclists.

• The bicycle school route plans were drawn up according to the actual school routes and their problem areas, which were indicated by pupils. In addition, the routes are optimized during so-called traffic inspections.
• In principle, we orientate ourselves with the bike school routing to existing main bike routes, the bike network BW and the bike fast connections.

• As soon as all cycle route plans have been completed, they will be updated every 3-5 years.
• The network of cycle paths for schools is to be embedded in the cycling concept of the city of Stuttgart and will be updated on an ongoing basis.
• In the school route planning of the elementary schools, current construction sites and other traffic obstacles are reported to the schools and changes in the road layout are incorporated promptly. This cannot currently be taken into account in school cycling route plans.

• Initially, bike to school plans will be developed for three pilot areas in Weilimdorf, in Vaihingen and in Bad Cannstatt.
• A prerequisite for planning is the participation of the school in question in the data collection of school routes by students.
• As soon as sufficient school route data is available for a plan district, it can be included in the implementation planning.
• The creation of bike to school plans for the entire city area, like the expansion of the main bike route network, should be completed by about 2030.