Nevada

Annual Nevada Moves Month is underway

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1 year ago

March 10, 2025

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – Nevada families and schoolchildren are encouraged to take part in safe walk or bicycle activities in March to celebrate Nevada Moves Month.

As an annual event, Nevada Moves promotes safe walking and biking to school, as well as other physical activities. Walking and other physical activities are planned for the Clark, Washoe, Carson City, Lyon, Douglas, Storey, and other school districts across the state again this year, primarily during mid-March. Families whose children are not taking part in organized school events are encouraged to plan safe walking or bicycling activities as a family during Nevada Moves Month and throughout the year.

In just one recent year, more than 6,600 students took part in walking and other school-sponsored Nevada Moves Day events.

“Nevada Moves provides an opportunity for children and families to learn more about pedestrian and bicycling safety and to include walking and bicycling into their daily routine,” NDOT Active Transportation Manager Mathew Morris explained. “Walking and bicycling to school helps reduce the number of vehicle trips near schools; this increases safety, reduces congestion, improves air quality, and encourages healthy habits from a young age. Increased physical activity at an early age plays a leading role in reducing heart disease, diabetes, and other obesity-related illnesses. We hope families statewide use Nevada Moves as an opportunity to walk and bicycle together, and to teach children pedestrian and bicycle safety and its health and environmental benefits.”

During Nevada Moves Month and every day, drivers should watch for children walking and bicycling to school or a neighborhood bus stop and be mindful of school zone speed reductions, as well as varying school start times. Motorists should also only pass bicyclists when it is safe with at least three feet of space between the bicycle and vehicle and never overtake a vehicle that has stopped at a crosswalk. Pedestrians and bicyclists should only cross streets when safe, and always look for vehicles before and while crossing. Per state law, no u-turns or passing are allowed in active school zones or school crossing zones.

To learn more, contact NDOT Safe Routes to School Coordinator Chantelle Ewing at (775) 888-3065 or cewing@dot.nv.gov.

PEDESTRIANS/BICYCLISTS

Plan your route.
Always wear a helmet when riding a bike, scooter or skateboard.
Stay visible. Wear light and bright colored clothing. If you must be out at night, wear reflective clothing.
Stay alert. Put your phone down and do not wear headphones.
Walk on sidewalks. If no sidewalks are available, ensure safe distance between yourself and passing vehicles and walk facing traffic.
If riding in the street; please ride with traffic, obey traffic laws and use proper hand signals. Children can ride their bicycle on the sidewalk.
When possible, cross at a crosswalk. Only cross when safe to do so. Make sure all cars have stopped before crossing.

DRIVERS

Always drive attentively and obey the speed limit.
When approaching crosswalks, reduce speed and be prepared to stop.
Stop for pedestrians and bicyclists and wait for them to cross completely.
Never pass a car that has stopped at a cross walk.
When passing a bicycle please allow for at least three feet of clearance between the vehicle and bicyclist.
Be responsible and never drive distracted or impaired.

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IN RESPONSE: Cortez Masto lands bill would keep the proceeds in Nevada

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7 hours ago

April 19, 2026

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IN RESPONSE: Cortez Masto lands bill would keep the proceeds in Nevada

A recent Review-Journal letter to the editor mischaracterized Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s Southern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act, also known as the Clark County Lands bill. As the former executive director of the Nevada Conservation League, I wholeheartedly support this legislation, so I wanted to set the record straight.

Sen. Cortez Masto has been working on this bill for years in partnership with state and local governments, conservation groups like the NCL and local area tribes. It’s true that the Clark County lands bill would open 25,000 acres to help Las Vegas grow responsibly, while setting aside 2 million acres for conservation. It would also help create more affordable housing throughout the valley while ensuring our treasured public spaces can be preserved for generations to come.

What is not correct is that the money from these land sales would go to the federal government’s coffers. In fact, the opposite is true.

The 1998 Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act is a landmark bill that identified specific public land for future sale and created a special account ensuring all land sale revenues would come back to Nevada. In accordance with that law 5 percent of revenue from land transfers goes to the state of Nevada for general education purposes, 10 percent goes to the Southern Nevada Water Authority for needed water infrastructure and 85 percent supports conservation and environmental mitigation projects in Southern Nevada. This legislation has provided billions to Clark County and will continue to benefit generations of Southern Nevadans. Sen. Cortez Masto’s lands bill builds upon the act’s success.

So here’s the good news: All of the money generated from land made available for sale under Sen. Cortez Masto’s bill would be sent to the special account created by the 1998 law. Rather than going to an unaccountable federal government, the proceeds would continue to help kids in Vegas get a better education, bolster outdoor recreation and modernize Southern Nevada’s infrastructure.

I know how important it is that money generated from the sale of public land in Nevada stay in the hands of Nevadans, and so does the senator. That’s why she opposed a Republican effort last year to sell off 200,000 acres of land in Clark County and other areas of the country that would have sent those dollars directly to Washington.

Public land management in Nevada should benefit Nevadans. We should protect sacred cultural sites and beloved recreation spaces, responsibly transfer land for affordable housing when needed and ensure our state has the resources it needs to grow sustainably. I will continue working with Sen. Cortez Masto to advocate for legislation, such as the Clark County lands bill, that puts the needs of Nevadans first.

Paul Selberg writes from Las Vegas.

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