Tag: walk bike schools

September 17, 2012

Learn how to encourage walking & biking to school in your neighborhood at Tuesday meeting in Ballard

Getting dropped off at school in your parent’s car is massively uncool. It’s 2012, and biking and walking to school is back in a big way. Though people have been pushing for more non-motorized school transportation for years, last school year may just have been the year biking to school in Seattle broke into the…
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tagged: ballard, car free days, walk bike schools
June 18, 2012

City-wide Walk.Bike.Schools meeting Monday

Eckstein Middle School is one of the bikiest middle schools in the city in large part due to hard work from active parents who promote walking and biking. Some of the Walk.Bike.Schools parents and Eckstein Bikes are hosting a city-wide meeting to share information and ideas between school communities Monday (tonight, sorry for the late…
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tagged: bryant elementary, eckstein middle school, walk bike schools
June 8, 2012

Biking to Bryant Elementary up 50%, proof we can break the dangerous school drop-off cycle

143 Bryant Elementary students biked to school in May. That’s a quarter of the school population (not even counting the kids who walked). Anyone who has ever been near a school at drop-off or (worse) pick-up times has witnessed the dangerous insanity caused by so many people in cars frustratingly trying to move kids around.…
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tagged: bryant elementary, seattle public schools, walk bike schools
May 4, 2012

121 Bryant Elementary kids and parents biked to school today – UPDATED

Do you feel that? The city is approaching the bike-to-school tipping point. It’s happening. For a school that has a bit over 500 students enrolled, Bryant saw a school bike commute rate of well over ten percent today. If you aren’t inspired, you should see a doctor. Just imagine what could happen with safer routes…
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tagged: bryant elementary, walk bike schools
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
April 25, 2012

Walk.Bike.Schools Update: Lots of energy at city-wide meeting + ‘Think Outside the Car’ Saturday in W Seattle

Walk.Bike.Schools held a city-wide kickoff meeting earlier this month that drew a packed house of parents from schools all around the city interested in helping more Seattle school kids walk or bike to school. I was not able to attend, but the WBS blog summarized the meeting for those who missed it (and be sure…
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tagged: events, think outside the car, walk bike schools, west seattle, westside elementary