A community based initiative promoting active travel by bike for school children.
Welcome to the CycleBus Community on ChangeX. The Cyclebus initiative is about giving primary school children the opportunity to cycle safely to school in a safe, healthy, social, and enjoyable environment. It’s about community involvement where parents, grandparents, teachers, and volunteers all create the conditions for this to happen. Help us cut pollution and traffic congestion around schools. Help us create safe and healthy environments in our neighbourhood schools, and empower children to become responsible and active and give them the freedom and a lifelong love of cycling. Thanks for joining!
- Alan Curran - Founder of CycleBus Galway
The Idea
A cycle bus is a community-based initiative promoting active travel by bike for school children. A group of experienced volunteers, parents and teachers, escort groups of children to school by bike along a set route, on a set timetable, every day during school term. These marshals act essentially as a mobile segregated cycle lane, allowing children as young a...
"My 7-year-old has been on the cycle bus every day for the past 2 years. To say he loves it is an understatement! He arrives in school awake, energized, and ready for learning. Cycling to school is just a normal part of his childhood now, and the skills that he’s picked up has given him such freedom and responsibility."
- Roisin Ni Thomain (parent)
What you can doYou can find out what's involved in starting a CycleBus in your local community by reading our 5 step guide below. Once you're ready to go fill in this short form and we'll make sure you have everything you need to get started.
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