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Wolfie's Bike Bus Returns for a Second Ride
Friday, June 18th
The bike bus will leave promptly at 8am so plan to arrive no later than 7:55am.
Come ride your bike to school with your friends and parents. You can choose to ride the entire route or ride your bike to the pickup locations listed below along the way and join the bus as it rolls by. Note: Bikes only. No tricycles, scooters, skateboards or bicycles with training wheels. Helmets required.
If you plan to leave your bike at school, please remember to bring a lock. Parents are responsible for getting their kids home at the end of the day.
Bus Pickup Locations:
- START: Liberty Tree Lane
- Scarab and St. Boniface Intersection
- Percussion and Grampion Place Intersection
- Podium and Prelude Intersection
- Abbottsford and Delancy (bottom of Abbottsford) - Final pickup location
- END: Talisman and Beulah
Contact saferoutes@wolftrappta.org if you have questions. |
Parent Surveys
We need your help as part of a more formal Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program for 2009-2010. SRTS is a National organization that gets its strength at the local and school level. SRTS' Mission is to assist communities in enabling and encouraging children to safely walk and bike to school. As such we need to make sure that all routes to school are safe for our children. Part of this process is to actually survey the many routes that are taken and this is where your help is needed. We need parents to make note of the safety issues and concerns that face our children as they walk and bike to school. The links below are to a Parent Survey and a Walkability and a Bikabilitly Checklist to be used in order to collect data as part of an overall Wolftrap SRTS Travel Plan.
Parent Survey, Walkability Checklist and Bikabilitly Checklist.
What is Safe Routes to School?
In keeping with Wolftrap's interest in its children's health, Wolftrap is adopting a Safe Routes to School ( www.saferoutesinfo.org )program. Safe Routes to School is a national and international movement to create safe, convenient, and fun opportunities for children to bicycle and walk to school. Safe Routes to School provides a variety of important benefits to kids and their communities, including improved health, reduced traffic congestion, better air quality, and enhanced neighborhood safety. This movement is part of the solution for the alarming nationwide trend toward child obesity and inactivity.
To support this initiative the school has provided a bike rack.
Bike Rack Rules/Guidelines
Click here to see the schools rules and guidelines for the bike rack.
Interesting Articles/Blogs
Go to http://www.fabb-bikes.org/blog/blog.html to see an interesting blog entry about kids riding bikes to school by Bruce Wright - Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling
Northern Vienna Trail Network
Information about sidewalks being added in the Wolftrap neighborhood click here
For more information
Contact Jeff Anderson at saferoutes@wolftrappta.org.
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