Zuhura Plummer writes for Cyclox on why cycling to school can be good for school children.
AS we start a new school term, it’s brilliant time to get the kids biking to school.
‘I save about two hours in a day!’ an Oxford mum tells me, when I ask how she feels about the change in the way her kids get to school. Samita’s girls have learnt to cycle; so can now go to school without her.
That saves her a huge 10 hours a week of school run time, which means she’s working more instead, and as a single mum this has been transformative.
‘I don’t know what I would be doing now, if I didn’t have that extra bit of money coming in,’ she adds.
‘And I’m saving petrol from the four journeys a day which I’m not doing. I honestly say the school streets volunteers who taught my girls are angels! I didn’t think that when I first met them though! I thought it was a total pain – why were they making my life so much harder? But now the girls are in the habit of cycling, I wouldn’t change it for the world.’ Oxford Mail: Her youngest, Soraya, who is seven, was taught to ride a bike off road, by School Streets volunteers at St Ebbes. When she could manage cycling well, she was taught a route from her house to the school. She negotiates this ten-minute bike ride from home, near Donnington Bridge, carefully and competently. Cycling alongside […]
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