This is a great article. Talks about how a grant is going to help encourage kids to ride their bikes to school as well as educate them on the how to do it right. Another great thing about this grant is that a large portion of the money will go towards improving infrastructure which include, bike racks, safer streets and intersections.
Bike riding was something that Sherly Poma, 14, avoided for a long time after a childhood accident left her with a scraped knee, but you wouldn’t know it watching her confidently biking around the parking lot at Alexandria’s Minnie Howard School earlier this month.
Poma and her classmates were doing riding drills as part of a program designed to encourage kids to bike for exercise. The message got through to Poma; this fall she will start biking to T.C. Williams High School.
“I found out that I like biking,” Poma said, adding that she has no intention of giving up two-wheeled transportation when she gets her driver’s license. “I like biking. I like the rush.”
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