What is a Bike Bus?
It is an initiative that allows boys and girls to ride to school in a group on bicycles. It's like a bus line: It follows specific routes and stops with predefined schedules.
It's a fun, safe and eco-friendly option that promotes unity in the educational community and physical activity among students. But the bike bus is much more than that...
🍃Health and Environment: The bike bus promotes regular physical activity among kids, combating a sedentary lifestyle and improving their well-being, while reducing pollution and improving air quality by decreasing car use.
🚲Education and Skills: This initiative is an opportunity to travel safely and efficiently by bike, fostering urban mobility skills and environmental awareness from an early age.
⭐Sustainable Community: By bringing together students, families and local organizations, the bike bus strengthens community cohesion and promotes collaboration towards common goals of sustainability and coexistence.
A proposal based on experience
The bike bus has the potential to change the mobility in your municipality
The bike bus is a project that transforms school mobility and has the potential to promote bicycle use in your city.
Why? Because it demonstrates that cycling to school and around your municipality is possible and desirable, but not all the conditions are yet met for most people, of all ages and abilities,to do so independently, safely, and comfortably, whenever they want.
And it's not just us saying this... The OECD includes the bike bus as one of the transport policies for the decarbonization of Catalonia's mobility system..
In this video we explain why the bike bus can also be seen as as a means to achieve towns and cities full of life and with fewer cars, helping to change habits, but also to plan better streets and a bicycle-friendly infrastructure.
ARE YOU A MUNICIPALITY OR PUBLIC ORGANIZATION EAGER TO TAKE ACTION?
Our step-by-step proposal
1. We analyze how to increase bicycle use in your municipality starting with a bike bus.
The bike bus activates and facilitates the achievement of goals towards a more vibrant municipality and cleaner, more inclusive mobility. We will assess if the bike bus can help you achieve this.
What goals does your municipality have to promote a change in mobility?
2. We assist in creating a bike bus at an educational center in your town or city
We will contact a school community motivated to start a bike bus and aligned with the goals. We will work together: families, teaching staff and technicians to launch it in a few months.
Do you know any schools in your municipality eager to start?
3. We activate actions beyond the bike bus to make cycling a regular, not an exceptional, activity.
The bike bus brings numerous benefits, but now we have the opportunity to extend its effects and take new steps that help us to flood your municipality with bicycles.
A city that is friendly to kids will be friendly to everyone. Shall we start?
Eager to take action? ⌛
Contact or schedule a 30-minute call through the calendar to explore options and get a bike bus up and running in your municipality.
“DO IT YOURSELF” GUIDE TO START A BIKE BUS