28 Mar 2019

Auckland primary students board 'bike train'

From Morning Report, 8:28 am on 28 March 2019
Children taking part in the 'bike train'

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Parents at an Auckland primary school are taking the traditional walking school bus to the next level, with what they call the bike train. Just under a year on from its first journey, the Point Chevalier School bike train has saved over one-thousand school drop-offs by car. And Auckland Transport is trying to get more schools on board with the biking trend and is relaxed about rules banning bikes on footpaths. Our reporter, Brooke Jenner, has the story.