This is a call for cycling parents with cycling (and helmeted) neighborhood kids to lead a “rolling school bus” from your neighborhood to your kids’ schools on May 16th! This is the bike version of the “walking school bus” concept, where an adult or two picks up kids by foot as they make their way to the local school, walking together in growing numbers along the route. I thought that could work at least as well on bikes, with an even better safety dividend, and at least as much fun for the kids. If you are willing to lead one, you need to:
1. Choose your route from home to school, picking the lowest traffic route and one that will let you pick up other kids on the way.
2. If you know kids with bikes in your neighborhood, let their families know your route, leaving time and pick up time. Invite the kids to be waiting on street corners along the way (or organize to ride by their homes), already saddled and helmeted ready to ride with you.
3. Tell me (Christine: email me cp226 at cornell.edu) the details, with a contact, and I’ll post them here.
4. Try to find another adult willing to be the back of your bus.
5. Don’t forget to pick them up for the ride home too!
To Boynton Middle School
* Robbert van Renesse (email: rvr at cs.cornell.edu or call 273-4733) will be leading a rolling bus between Baker Park and Boynton Middle with at least 2 other adults. Students (and parents) can meet at Baker Park at 8:25, at 8:40 at Bell Park (near Gimme Coffee), shortly thereafter at Fall Creek Cinema, or join anywhere on the route shown here. It will leave Boyton at 3:35 and follow the same route home.
One Response to “Rolling School Buses”
1. Patty Dickerson Says:
May 13th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
No, I don’t commute by bike, but wld. love to,at least a few days a week. The steep hills that I live and work on make that an impossibility. However, my husband and I began biking last year on the weekends on the Cass Park trail.
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