Pedal Power is our amazing after-school program. Fifteen students spend 2 hours on their bikes after school twice a week for three weeks. We provide the bikes and helmets; they provide the excitement. Last week I went on one of these fabulous neighborhood rides in outer NE Portland. Unlike a lot of kids I see riding the neighborhoods, these students were using all the proper hand signals. This was the safest group of people with which I had ever ridden. Congratulations kids! I had to smile as I saw one particular student using rock and roll fingers to accompany all his hand signals. Rock on, kiddo. Bike on, everyone else.
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.
