Lewes Elementary's first bike bus rolls with more than 40 kids
Students, teachers, and parents biked to Lewes Elementary together for a pilot ride of more than 40 children. The town hopes to make the bike bus a weekly habit.
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Lewes Elementary tried a bike bus, WBOC reported. Students, teachers, and parents rode to school together, and more than 40 children were in the group on the first day. The town hopes the pilot in Lewes will become a weekly ride.
The first count is one morning. A weekly habit is what organizers want next, not a schedule that is already locked in.
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A bike bus is a group of students who ride to school together, with adults along to keep the line safe, the way a school bus gathers kids but on bicycles. Lewes Elementary in Lewes, Delaware, tried it for the first time. More than 40 children rode, and teachers and parents rode with them. It was a pilot, which means a test run to see if the idea works. The town hopes to do it every week. Forty is the first day's count, not a promise that every student at the school has a bike. The hope is a weekly ride, still ahead of them.
- Why is a group of bikes safer than one child riding alone?
- What would your route to school need before a bike bus could use it?
- Who would have to say yes before a weekly ride could start?
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