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Happy Critical Mass Friday, y'all. Here's some happy bike-related news for you: The San Francisco Unified School District is encouraging students to cycle to school. SFUSD and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition have recently installed new bike racks at Francisco Middle School and teamed up to teach students basic street safety, bike courtesy, and how to blow the perfect snot rocket. According to Leah Shahum of the Bicycle Coalition, "This is really about working regular exercise into your everyday lifestyle so [that] when kids grow up they are living healthy active lives." And while the paranoid, hysterical mother in us wants to take little Cody to school in a monstrous but protective Hummer, the rational cool older brother in us thinks this is a great idea. Kudos, SF Bike Coalition and SFUSD.
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"This is really about working regular exercise into your everyday lifestyle so [that] when kids grow up they are living healthy active lives."...it's true. this is one of the worst things about cars. most people's daily cardio is walking to and from the parking lot. it's so irritating to walk around with someone who can't walk worth a shit.
Good. I biked to school as a kid and it was a great experience.
Maybe they could also remind kids that helmets, lights, and functioning BRAKES are required? No fixies!
AJ is secretly bikesnobnyc
i just hope no one gets hurt as a result.
they will have to mini-mass to school to keep safe from raging cagers, though.
This morning I saw a man biking to school with his kid. She was on a cute little pink bike. He was on a unicycle. For real.
Will the SFUSD tell that to the kids at my children's school who have to be in Cole Valley from the Bayview at 7:50 am?
No shit! Maybe if kids were allowed to go to their neighborhood schools this wouldn't seem like such a dangerous, terrible campaign.
Dangerous?? Surely you jest. It is very possible for teenagers at least to bike reasonable distances to school in good weather. Maybe not Bayview to Cole Valley, but there are many trips that can be done without difficulty. Younger kids will need to go shorter distances, and you are correct that many will not be able to in SF, but some will.
I biked about three miles in ninth grade (Arlington, VA), and about two in tenth through twelfth (Ann Arbor, MI), with no ill effects. San Francisco is not wildly more dangerous than either of these places.
The only difference is that parents today are more likely to panic about everything.
Where is Rob Anderson when we need him?
There is never any need for that Anderson fellow.