Walking helps keep your children fit, teaches them valuable pedestrian skills and contributes to lessening carbon dioxide emissions. Changing behaviors of children and parents require creative solutions that are safe and fun. Implementing a walking school bus can be both.
A walking school bus is a group of children walking to school with one or more adults. If that sounds simple, it is, and that’s part of the beauty of the walking school bus. It can be as informal as two families taking turns walking their children to school to as structured as a route with meeting points, a timetable and a regularly rotated schedule of trained volunteers.
Bring “Buster the Bus”, the Walking School Bus, to your child’s school. Ask your PTO to invite the Hudson County Transportation Management Association to present its “Walking School Buses” program. Call 201.792.2825 for more information.