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I Started a Bike Bus (2023)
It’s official: The best way to improve both your life and your community is to get everyone to cycle to school together.
As the parent of a 5- and 7-year-old, the bike bus is an antidote to the fear and loneliness I’ve experienced over the past few years, wondering if my kids would get the crippling inflammatory Covid complication or watching my kindergartener struggle with remote schooling. One adult isn’t enough to have a safe bike bus, so another parent volunteered to serve as the “rear axle,” the rider who stays at the back of the group to watch for stragglers and manage approaching cars. Maybe the best way to remind ourselves, and each other, that we and the Earth are worth protecting is by moving through it, not in a steel- and glass-wrapped bubble, but with fresh air on our faces and the sounds of kids’ laughter echoing in our ears.
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