Partnership Provides Hundreds of New Bikes for BTA Bike Safety Program

323 new bicycles were acquired for the BTA Youth Bicycle Safety Education program through a partnership with Bike N’ Hike and Giant Bicycles. Nearly 20,000 children will learn to safely ride a bike on streets during the life-span of these new quality bicycles. Bicycle Safety Education is part of the BTA/Willamette Pedestrian Coalition’s Safe Routes to School program. The Juan Young Trust provided funding for one of the Portland fleets.

According to the BTA’s Youth Programs Coordinator, Anna Scalera, “Without this partnership, we would have been scrambling to find enough bikes for the program. Now we have brand new bikes that will be fun for the kids to ride and provide a safe learning tool.”

The bikes will be divided into groups of 30 and distributed to program sites in Portland, Salem, Ashland, and Albany, OR, and Vancouver, WA. The bikes will be in use each fall and spring for multiple two-week programs in schools throughout each community. Each fleet of bikes will be used by several classes at each school during the program, and will then be transported to the next school just before its program starts.

Learn more about the BTA’s Bicycle Safety Education program, or go to walknbike.org, or call us toll-free at: 1-866-452-8300.