Unique service for parents who fear their children alone venturing bike to school without reflective vest, started recently in Olomouc Ride2sCool Association in cooperation with local Palacky University (UP). It offers children accompaniment in the form of college volunteers, who little bikers along the way they oversee.
Olomouc Ride2sCool Association in cooperation with Palacky University offers escort children in the form of college students who oversee the little bikers not only the way to school, but also in the opposite direction. | Photo: Tomas Frait, MF DNES
Nontraditional school cyklodoprovod association began offering in mid-May. Accompaniment, which provide students of the Faculty of Physical Culture UP, to which should, in future, to join their colleagues from other disciplines, yet uses eight schoolchildren.
Instructors have the morning to pick up their so-called collection points are in the village Křelov-Břuchotín the city in the New World, on New Street and Litovelské street.
“Soon they will be added post Neředín where he signed one girl. She found herself instructors, he would like to ride with them. Regarding schools, the project has so far involved Elementary School and St. Ursula Zeyerova, “explained a member of the association Ride2sCool Jan Hoffmann from the Faculty of Physical Culture UP with the fact that the first two weeks of pay for accompanying parents, now paid seven crowns per ride.
“Our goal was that the service was more expensive than a child’s ticket for public transport. Otherwise, the whole principle works so that parents accompany children ordered through the reservation system, “he explained.
The association was inspired by Australia and the United States
Instructors for the safety of cyclists handing out small before every ride safety vest.
“The condition of the wheel correspond parents. They must also equip children helmet, “said Hoffmann. The association was inspired by her school bus, which tie the children to school, for example in the USA.
“We decided to bike so that the children could before and after school stretch. The bike is also, of course, more environmentally friendly mode of transportation than the bus, “explained Hoffmann.
A similar road safety service is currently only operates in Australia. In the Antipodes, however, escorting fend parents who alternate in the heats.
“Maybe to do once we arrive in our country and our service is no longer needed,” said a member of the association.