One trainee explains it as “a parade every Wednesday.” Which’s practically what it appears like as more than 100 trainees ride the bike bus to Alameda Primary school every week.
Led by Sam Balto, the Portland school’s athletics instructor, the bike bus fulfills 1.5 miles from the school and gets kids along the method, mainly on bikes, however sometimes on rollerblades, as they blast music and make their method to school.
However behind the party-like environment of the bike bus lies genuine advantages for trainees.
Here, Balto talks about those advantages, and talks through the 5 elements schools and districts require to develop a bike bus of their own.