We all seem to be on the same page on this with most of us having grown up using our bikes to get to school (who would have thought the 70's & 80's were enlightened eras?).

I recall hundreds of bikes jamming the bike racks of the public schools I attended and the mass invasion of the neighbourhood by kids on bikes before and after school. My son goes to a neighbourhood senior public school with 422 students, yet there are only four or five bikes in the single rack provided, including my sons'. The vast majority of the kids live within just blocks of the school and the school is not situated on a major road with the residential streets around the school relatively safe to operate on. It strikes me as illogical not to ride to such a close and easy to get to destination.

Even after-school events that parents attend, like softball and soccer games, concerts and dances, are all travelled to by car. And they wonder why there are more and more obese kids every year? Duh.

Granted, many kids walk to school, but an astounding number of them are dropped off by parents. I've seen it hundreds of times as I tried to negotiate the suddenly congested neighbourhood streets and the endless line of illegally stopped cars in front of the school that prevent traffic from moving while little Johnny and Jane are delivered to the front door.

I just sent an email off to local city councillors and the mayor, citing the link herein provided, encouraging our school board and city embrace an aggressive program to get kids back on their bikes, to foster a new generation of kids (like we were) that continue to ride throughout our adult life as part of an overall effort to re-acquaint ourselves and our kids with environmentally positive, healthy, efficient and safe cycling practices.

Thanks for the link!