What IS a Bike Bus?
A simple routine; creating a safe and fun way for kids and young adults to get to school or people to get from Point A to Point B by bike!
Working to create everyday routes across the city,
to help make the morning commute easy, reliable, and safe.
Kids, young adults, and their people hop on and off their local Bike Bus.
In the News!
The Bike Bus World Came Together in Brooklyn Today (10.19.23) - BikePortland
Bike Bus Popularity Grows Across The US (10.04.23) - Men’s Journal
Transportation Hacks Cities Are Using to Fight Climate Change (04.22.23) - Scientific American
Bike buses offer Brooklyn students a new way to get to school (04.13.23) - amNY
& Video Highlights
How to Start a Bike Bus! (10.26.23) - Streetfilms
There’s a cool new way to get to school…it’s called the Bike Bus! (06.15.23) - Local Now News
Interesting Reads…
International Meeting of Bike Buses in Barcelona (04.01.23) - CityLab Barcelona
How a Bike Bus Inspired a State Bill (03.23.23) - People for Bikes
Oregon Could Let Schools Fund ‘Bike Buses,’ Transit (03.07.23) - Planetizen
Are Bike Buses The Future of School Transportation? (02.07.23) - Next City
How to Set Up a Bike Bus at Your School (01.09.23) - Edutopia
It started with 5 Families. Now hundreds are biking to school together in Barcelona (10.22.22) - NPR
Sam Balto on how to start a bike bus of your own (10.05.22) - BikePortland
Epic 150-Kid ‘Bike Bus’ Shows America a Better Way to Get to School (09.08.22) – Streetsblog USA
With Bike Buses, Kid Cyclists Dominate the Road (02.10.22) - Bloomberg CityLab
The Link Between Kids that Walk or Bike to School and Concentration (02.05.13) - Bloomberg CityLab
Videos
Portland’s Alameda Bus Turns One: The Joy of Kids Biking to School (04.19.23) - StreetFilms
Oregon School’s Unique Way of Getting Students to Class: A ‘Bike Bus’ (10.12.22) - NBC News
Teacher Creates ‘Bike Bus’ for Kids to Cycle to School Together (10.11.22) - Now This News
Kid Wheel Power: Barcelona Bici Bus is Magic (05.22.22) - StreetFilms
& Research
Simón-i-Mas, G., Martín, S., Honey-Rosés, J. (2024). “A Global Survey of Bike Bus Initiatives.” Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). City Lab Barcelona. URL: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/283387
Laurie Berrie, Zhiqiang Feng, David Rice, Tom Clemens, Lee Williamson, Chris Dibben (2024). “Does cycle commuting reduce the risk of mental ill-health? An instrumental variable analysis using distance to nearest cycle path” International Journal of Epidemiology (2024), dyad153. URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyad153