On Thursday, August 16th, I attended my first ever Bike Rodeo with fellow SR2S Coordinator, Stephanie, in a North Portland Neighborhood. The Portland Police were there to fit and give away 100 bike helmets! After each child was properly fitted with a helmet, she/he was allowed to take a supervised turn around the Bike Safety Course arranged in the parking lot, yeee haw!!! We spent the next few hours assisting the officers in fitting helmets for a never ending line of sticky, young bike enthusiasts. (There was ice cream for those waiting in line). When we ran out of bike helmets, we passed out bike safety coloring books and stickers. Great fun was had by all! Thanks Portland Police Officers and the Boys and Girls Club for introducing me to my new favorite kind of rodeo, a bike rodeo.
The BTA is a proud partner in Portland’s Safer Routes to School (SR2S) Program in which we coordinate education and encouragement services for participating schools as well as facilitate a community input process for traffic safety improvements. We also offer our bike safety curriculum and other services statewide in conjunction with Oregon’s fulfillment of the the federal Safe Routes to School Program.
