Tag: walk bike schools

May 19, 2016

Dad who helped grow Seattle’s bike to school movement passes away. RIP Clint Loper

The day I first met Clint Loper, he was surrounded by an endless sea of kids biking off a Top Pot doughnut on their way to class at Bryant Elementary. Nearly a quarter of the school’s students biked to class on Bike to School Day 2013, an astounding and jaw-dropping increase from the dozen or…
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tagged: bryant elementary, clint loper, eckstein middle school, walk bike schools
October 16, 2013

Want to learn how to start a bike train to your local school? Cascade hosting workshop Saturday

Schools, teachers and parents across the Puget Sound region have started organizing bike trains in recent years, one key part of the bike-and-walk-to-school revolution. Essentially, bike trains are like walking school buses, but on wheels. Volunteers (often parents) lead a slow-moving group of kids along a pre-planned route through a neighborhood that ends at school.…
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tagged: ballard, bike trains, cascade bicycle club, feet first, walk bike schools, walking school buses
April 29, 2013

Loper: How Bike to School Month can inspire a shift in your school’s transportation culture

This Wednesday is opening day. Not only for Bike to Work Month, with its streams of bikers joining the Dexter peloton and filling the Burke-Gilman Trail. It’s also opening day for Bike to School Month, when schools throughout Seattle will encourage families to give bike commuting a try. Several schools held kickoff events last week…
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tagged: bike to school month, clint loper, walk bike schools
March 11, 2013

Loper: Group rides – kid style! How bike trains and after school clubs help kids become strong city bikers

One basic principle of elementary age bike to school programs is that each kid generally rides with one of their parents. Especially when the kids are in their first few years of school. As children get a little older and more experienced — typically as they approach 4th or 5th grade — some become competent…
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tagged: bike trains, clint loper, loyal heights, loyal heights elementary, thornton creek elementary, urban cycling club, walk bike schools
March 5, 2013

Loper: Creating a biking and walking culture at Seattle’s schools

Editor’s Note: I’m pleased to welcome a new columnist to the Seattle Bike Blog lineup. Clint Loper has been a big force behind Seattle’s bike-to-school efforts in the last decade. Now biking and walking to school is growing so quickly, we may be reaching the tipping point where kid-powered transportation becomes mainstream at neighborhood schools.…
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tagged: clint loper, walk bike schools
January 8, 2013

A record 28 Safe Routes to School programs will be funded in 2013 – UPDATED

Walk.Bike.Schools posted a roundup of Safe Routes to School mini-grants that will help students all across the city more safely and easily get to school on foot or by bike. SDOT will fund 28 of 30 applications they received for funding, the largest number of projects ever funded through the Safe Routes to School program.…
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tagged: clint loper, safe routes to school, sdot, walk bike schools