Students in grades 4 and 5 will learn biking skills and safety awareness at participating schools in Metro Vancouver, Victoria, and Squamish as the fall session of Everyone Rides Grades 4-5 gets underway.
Students will take part in two sessions at school. The first is a 45-to-60-minute in-class or online introduction to cycling skills and helmet safety.
The second provides 75 to 90 minutes of hands-on practice with practical skills, including stopping, turning, hand signals, road sign awareness and traffic safety.
About 2,700 students from 27 schools are expected to participate in the program.
Bikes and helmets are provided, including adaptive options for children with disabilities, so that all students can take part.
“By enabling people to cycle instead of drive, we can collectively prevent thousands of kilograms of carbon dioxide from entering our atmosphere every year,” said Bowinn Ma, Minister of State for Transportation and Infrastructure.
“Cycling is a great year-round activity that allows people to fit more activity into their lives. Everyone Rides Grade 4-5 helps students develop important bike skills and will encourage them to become active travellers.”
Everyone Rides Grades 4-5 is a program developed and delivered by HUB Cycling, a not-for-profit organization with more than 20 years of experience helping to remove barriers to cycling and promoting the health, environmental and economic benefits of cycling through education and training.
The first two years of the program reached 9,235 students through a combination of online, in-class and on-bike learning.
“HUB Cycling is excited to provide even more British Columbia elementary students with skills, confidence and the opportunity to learn to ride their bikes to and from school,” said Rose Gardner, HUB Cycling director of bike education. “This third season of the Everyone Rides Grade 4-5 program helps achieve goals related to Vision Zero, climate action, active transportation and healthy communities.”
“By enabling people to cycle instead of drive, we can collectively prevent thousands of kilograms of carbon dioxide from entering our atmosphere every year,”
Early childhood indoctrination.
Motor vehicles in the whole of the Lower Mainland (Vancouver and all surrounding municipalities, Chilliwack, Surrey, Delta, Langley, etc )= 1.4 million ( From STATISTICS ICBC insured motor vehicles)
Average estimated annual CO2 emissions from each motor vehicle = approx 4 tons CO2 per annum.(Translink)
Total estimated annual CO2 emissions due to all motor vehicles Lower Mainland
= 4 tons per vehicle x 1.4 million vehicles = 5.6 million tons CO2 emissions per annum.
Estimated annual CO2 emissions from 1 coal fired electric plant = approx 15 million tons CO2 per annum. (World Coal Association)
So removing ALL MOTOR VEHICLES from lower mainland and replacing them with bikes would reduce CO2 emissions by the equivalent of ONE THIRD of ONE coal fired electric plant of the type China had, until recently, been bringing onstream at the rate of one new plant every 5 days.
China (as of January 2020) operates 1081 coal fired electric plants. We leave it to the reader to research all the rest of the countries in the world still building and using coal fired plants.
Are you really believing we ought to be teaching our children that they must bike and if they do, that biking will ‘save the planet’ or should we be teaching them to read and research the propaganda projects of HUB and Greenpeace and WWF and ….. deciding if there is any agenda behind such claims.