Tag: bike trains

October 16, 2013

Want to learn how to start a bike train to your local school? Cascade hosting workshop Saturday

Schools, teachers and parents across the Puget Sound region have started organizing bike trains in recent years, one key part of the bike-and-walk-to-school revolution. Essentially, bike trains are like walking school buses, but on wheels. Volunteers (often parents) lead a slow-moving group of kids along a pre-planned route through a neighborhood that ends at school.…
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tagged: ballard, bike trains, cascade bicycle club, feet first, walk bike schools, walking school buses
March 11, 2013

Loper: Group rides – kid style! How bike trains and after school clubs help kids become strong city bikers

One basic principle of elementary age bike to school programs is that each kid generally rides with one of their parents. Especially when the kids are in their first few years of school. As children get a little older and more experienced — typically as they approach 4th or 5th grade — some become competent…
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tagged: bike trains, clint loper, loyal heights, loyal heights elementary, thornton creek elementary, urban cycling club, walk bike schools
June 25, 2012

Yes! Magazine on how to build a bike train to school

Thornton Creek Elementary bike train organizer Maya Jacobs wrote an article for Yes! Magazine giving advice for people who want to organize bike trains to their neighborhood schools. Among her bits of advice: Find a group of interested parents, pick a safe route that runs near many students’ homes, then publicize the route and the…
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tagged: bike trains, maya jacobs, thornton creek elementary, yes! magazine
April 27, 2012

When bike trains collide, it’s heartwarming

This just in from Laurelhurst Elementary parent Kendall Wills: Just had a heart warming bike experience this a.m. I was biking in to school this morning with my kids and a neighbor girl on the Burke Gilman. We live in Matthews beach and ride to Laurelhurst for school. When we reached about the Hawthorne Hills…
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tagged: bike trains, laurelhurst elementary, safe routes to school, thornton creek elementary, walk bike schools