Hi Leah, With regards to the bike bus, contact Safe Routes to School (SFTS). They have coordinators in your district, information online how to start a bike bus and webinars. I am the bike/bus coordinator for my local elementary school located on a freeway otherwise known as Sunset Blvd. here in LA. Using SRTS online tools and talking with some of their coordinators I was able to get the school to join the national walk to school day. Because it hadn't happened before we had over 30 parents and children come out on a cloudy day that every feared would bring more rain. A councilman and the city attorney walked with the students, along the director of SoCal SRTS. The comment I heard most from the children was, "Can we do this everyday." Some parents even parked and walked.
It seems like a daunting task to organize a bike bus but like you've learned from the other posters on your thread--you're not alone! I too am organizing a bike to school ride on the national bike to school day in May. Join me through SRTS. On Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:05:08 PM UTC-8, LeahFoy wrote: > > We moved from beautiful Valencia, CA this summer to > less-but-still-beautiful NV. There were paseos that connected everything I > loved in Valencia, and I spent many happy miles on my Betty Foy frequenting > parks, favorite shopping districts and church. I even had another at-home > mom and her 2 kiddos to accompany me. My new home is up on a mountain, and > boasts no paseos. There is nothing but homes for miles and miles. It takes > 20min to get to the store by car. I'm able to bike to school with my boys, > but it is only 0.5 mile one way. Church is on school property, so I can > bike that same route 6 days per week, but it isn't enough. I miss bike > commuting because I love doing useful things on my bike - I don't like to > cruise with no place or plan in mind. I miss having another mom on my > adventures. I'm the only mother who bikes with her kids to school. There > are almost 1,000 students at school and there is one dad (mountain bike > with disc brakes) I see bike with his son most days. One mom I see on her > cruiser bike once every blue moon. It's lonely. And I don't think we'll be > moving again for several years. I have a beautiful Betty Foy that > practically begs to be ridden and I just don't get her out enough. I'm > grateful for the school commute, I just gotta figure out where else I can > go... I would guess some of you guys had times in your life where you had > to live in a less-than-bikey community. How did you deal? > > Thanks, Leah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
