Bicycle Bus for Children

[Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!]

I came across this feel-good story about an Oregon school implementing a bicycle bus. The PE teacher leads it and he has 170 kids riding to school with him! I’ve pasted the link below, and if you are interested, you can Google Alameda bike bus and lots of stories surface. 

I had a short stint leading a bicycle bus in Las Vegas several years ago. I ran into constant problems with it. I was the only parent, and there would always be a mechanical of one sort or another along the way. What to do? Stay with that child and make all the rest tardy? Leave that child and take the rest? Neither seemed right. The weather and the mile-long ascent home further complicated matters. The kids just didn’t have bikes that were up to the challenge and they preferred the ease of being driven. It was back to me and my kids in just a couple of weeks. I was so delighted to see that the featured school found a way. And with so many children, wow. What really tugged at my heartstrings was the quote about how adults have underestimated how social children are. They love to be outside with their friends. When I see the joy in the video and then think of the average child in the minivan in the carpool lane, well, what a bummer.

Watch and be cheered!

Leah

https://twitter.com/nbcnightlynews/status/1580340119927939072?s=12&t=Sn8mABWroaBCuLzPHJwVSQ

And 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/10/11/bike-bus-school-sam-balto/

[ascpgh]

Very heartwarming to see so many embrace the activity. Sad that your stint was marred by parent problems in continued participation and equipment readiness. Not caring is a position kids learn because most things can be presented to them in a manner that does elicit their care. 

Andy Cheatham

Pittsburgh 

[Bill Schairer]

Great story!

Thanks,

Bill S 

San Diego