Four mid-Missouri communities will spend more than half a million dollars to protect children walking and biking to school. 

The Missouri Department of Transportation awarded $3.4 million grants to 16 communities across the state to protect safety of the children on the road.

The grants are under the "Safe Routes to School" program, to provide safer biking and walking accomodation for K-8 students. Federal Highway Adminstration started it in 2005.

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