"On a sunny fall morning, children wearing helmets and backpacks gathered with their parents in Montclair, New Jersey, for a group bicycle ride to two local elementary schools. Volunteers in orange safety vests made sure everyone assembled in a neighborhood shopping area was ready before the riders set off on their 5-mile "bike bus" route. Every few blocks, more adults and kids on bikes joined in. Eventually, the group grew to over 350 people."
""And it really started because a small group of us, about five parents, all wanted to ride to school with our kids and just felt like it wasn't safe. And for me, I felt kind of lonely riding by myself to school. So, bike bus just took off as a small effort. And now we can have up to 400 people riding together to school," Tillyer said."
On a sunny fall morning in Montclair, children and parents assembled for a group bicycle ride to two local elementary schools along a 5-mile "bike bus" route organized by volunteers in orange safety vests. Riders joined every few blocks and the procession grew to more than 350 people as cars stopped to let the long line pass. Many families peeled off at the first school while others continued to the final stop. The weekly ritual began three years ago with a handful of parents seeking safer, less lonely trips and has since promoted exercise, environmental benefits, safer routes and community bonds.
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