Wilbraham Bike Bus

06/06/2025

Thank you for inspiring our community CoachBalto !!!!!

06/06/2025

We had a very fun and successful bike bus event today!

Thank you to all the parents, volunteers and kids that joined us throughout the route today. Special thanks to officer Dan Ryan and the Wilbraham Police Department for watching over us and making all the road crossings safe. You made us feel like celebrities today 🤩

Thanks again to Massachusetts Safe Routes to School for providing the volunteer gear.

06/06/2025

We're excited and ready to go this morning.

06/05/2025

See you all tomorrow morning 🌤

06/04/2025

Thank you Massachusetts Safe Routes to School for the safety gear! We're excited and prepared for our first Bike Bus this Friday.

Volunteers: let us know if you'd like one of the vests and flags 👍

06/03/2025

Just in time for our Bike Bus this Friday, June 6. We'll have volunteers helping at each of the main crossing locations. Thank you volunteers!

If you have students that go to Mile Tree or Soule Road Elementary, feel free to jump right in when you see us come by. I've pinned the route and estimated times to the page. Hope to see you there!

06/02/2025

We have a date for our first bike bus! This Friday, June 6.

Please refer to the attached image for details on the route, estimated timing, as well as bike parking information.

Since we have a narrow window to get to both schools, if we don't make it to Soule Road before the 8:30, we will park bikes on the black top and enter the school through the front instead of the cafeteria entrance.

We'll see you out there.

–Bradley Gregory

05/08/2025

EDIT: this is the old route plan. Please refer to the pinned post to see the updated route plan.

Hello neighbors. I wanted to post an update, and ask for your feedback.

I've been waiting for the assistant superintendent to share data with the Safe Routes to School program coordinator in order to plan a route that is most ideal for the largest number of students. However, the assistant superintendent has been understandably extremely busy settling into his new role, and I thought maybe for this one event we can plan a route ourselves.

I (Bradley Gregory) have 2 children that are planning to go with me. One goes to Mile Tree, and the other goes to Soule Road Elementary. Here is a 1st draft route plan that goes from WMA to Mile Tree, then to Soule Road.

Let me know what you think and if there is a route you think would work better.

I'll be able to add relative times to possible stops along the way to provide expectations of where you can wait along the route.

Feel free to email [email protected] with any questions or comments.

03/25/2025

Small update: As we wait for the route and date to be set, I discussed with our regional Safe Routes to School coordinator that we might hold a Bike Rodeo just prior to the Bike Bus day.

My instinct is that this will all be best in May, to give us the month of April to test out the route and make any last minute changes we need before May comes around.

Here's information about what a Bike Rodeo is.https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2018/07/28/Bike%20Rodeo%20Kit_02082017.pdf

-Bradley G.

PS. Let me know if you have interest in volunteering for these events. I have a group of 6 parents, including myself so far.

03/18/2025

Welcome everyone!

The Wilbraham Bike Bus is a is an organized group of children and families riding bikes to school together along a set route. It can go to one or multiple schools, have one or multiple starting points, and can have a few or a lot of children and families, but all Bike Buses have similar joy, positivity, community feel, and transformative energy. You can get a sense for Bike Bus by watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNOb377piC8

Stay tuned for more details on our bike bus:

We're currently planning the first date, but expect it to be a warm day in May. We hope to make it more often depending on how this first event goes.

The first route will be to Soule Road Elementary and will share the map soon. We hope to expand the routes to more schools as well.

We are also working on building a website that will contain all the information you'll need.

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