Ride2School
The NSW Government has announced a new program to make it easier to for kids to ride, walk and scoot to skate to school.
Register now for National Ride2School Day 2024
Registrations are now open for Bicycle Network's National Ride2School Day 2024, where hundreds of thousands of kids around the country are expected to ride, scoot, skate and walk to class.
Open Streets wins bike culture award
Bicycle Network's Behaviour Change team has earned recognition at the Cycling Luminaries Awards in Canberra this month, taking out the Bike Culture Award for its pioneering Open Streets program.
An open letter from our CEO Alison McCormack
After 17 years of promoting physical activity among Australian school children, our Ride2School program is under threat.
Our Ride2School program is under threat
Bicycle Network’s free Ride2School program has shared the joy of riding with hundreds of thousands of students for 17 years. But the program, beloved by schools across the country, is under threat.
How Open Streets is opening minds to a new style of school run
Open Streets offers an alternative vision of daily drop-off and pick-ups. And as the idea catches on safer, happier and healthier streets may be on the way all around Melbourne. And perhaps far beyond.
Open Streets change the daily drop off
Chalk drawings on the road, bikes cutting laps and laughter in the air were signs of success this week as Bicycle Network continued its Open Streets program at Brunswick South West Primary School.
National Ride2School Day hits new heights
Overflowing bike sheds, proud parents and ear-to-ear smiles could be found all over the country today as thousands of kids took part in another joyous National Ride2School Day.
Students gear up for National Ride2School Day
More than 400,000 students from around Australia are expected to pedal, scoot, skate or walk to school on National Ride2School Day, Friday 24 March.
Open Streets in full swing
The drop-off and pickup zone at Lloyd Street Primary School in Malvern East has taken on a different tempo in recent weeks, with Bicycle Network's Open Streets initiative creating a safe space for active travel.
Let’s give our children safer school trips
With students now back in classrooms around the country, schools have become hives of activity around pick-up and drop-off times.
Singapore’s Integrated Transport Corridor
Singapore's Land Transport Authority is working on a new integrated transport corridor that will include a network of dedicated cycling trunk routes, bus lanes and pedestrian paths.
Australia celebrates active travel tomorrow
Over 350,000 students across Australia are set to ride, scoot, skate or walk to school on Bicycle Network’s National Ride2School Day on Friday 25 March 2022.
Coburg North street open to active commuters only
Students, teachers and parents riding and walking to Coburg North Primary School have exclusive access to a neighbouring street that is closed to car traffic during drop-off and pick-up times.
Mornington Park path ready to roll
Riding a bike to Mornington Park Primary School is about to get easier, with Bicycle Network’s Ride2School ActivePaths opening next week on Tuesday 20 July.
Mornington students pick the path to school
Mornington Park Primary School students helped designate bike riding routes to school at Bicycle Network’s Ride2School ActivePaths workshop last week.
Keelonith Primary School ready to ride
Students at Greenvale’s Keelonith Primary School will be ready to ride to school all throughout 2021 thanks to a Ride2School bike education workshop.
National Ride2School Day stats roll in
It's been one month since National Ride2School Day and we've tallied the stats from one of the first big bike parties held since coronavirus.
Continuing the momentum of Ride2School Day
Few things beat the colour and excitement of seeing kids with ear-to-ear smiles, wind in their hair, enjoying the fun, freedom and independence of riding to school.
Ride2School Day a big hit with the kids
Attending a Ride2School Day is a good reminder of why there is so much goodwill towards getting kids on bikes and the barriers that still exist to making it happen.
Open Streets to cut school gate congestion
An Open Streets trial at Brunswick East Primary School is helping students and parents ride and walk without car congestion at the school gate.
School’s back – help us take care
School's going back all around Australia, which means there will be more children out on bikes and more traffic on the roads.
VicHealth encourages families to get active on way to school
As primary school kids in metro Melbourne join their regional peers in heading back to the classroom, AFL great Cameron Mooney and VicHealth are encouraging families in getting active on their commute.
Access to bike lanes increases physical activity in children
If we build it, will they come? A new study suggests yes: greater access to bike facilities can contribute to increased physical activity in children.
Tassie Bike News Bites
In this edition's Bike News Bites our Ride2School program join the University of Tasmania on a climate change research project, Burnie road closure, funding agreed for Intercity Cycleway-Macquarie Point link and new RACT expert panel for Launceston transport vision.
Is school traffic a taste of what’s to come?
Traffic data from Sydney and Brisbane has shown what will happen to our roads if pop-up bike lanes aren't installed before we return to the office.
Riding to school – give it a go!
Have you or your children ever thought about riding a bike to school? Now is the perfect time to give it a go as we come out of coronavirus restrictions.
Aussie students to break into the cycle this Friday
More than 350,000 students from 800 schools around Australia are set to break into the cycle and ride to school on National Ride2School Day tomorrow.
National Ride2School Day rolls around on freaky Friday
National Ride2School Day coming up on Friday 13 March and we’re embracing the freaky date with a call for spooky decorations for bikes and riders.
Ride2School Day rolls around on Freaky Friday
Ride2School Day is coming up on Friday 13 March and we're asking Tassie schools to register and fundraise for World Bicycle Relief.
Ride to school and help send bikes to developing countries
Australia’s biggest bike party is aiming to do the gift giving this year, with National Ride2School Day working to help send bikes to developing countries.
Your guide to getting back on the bike
The Christmas break can be the perfect time to jump back on the bike and carry healthy habits into the new year. Check out our guide to getting started!
Swap screen time for cycling time this summer
Bicycle Network is asking Aussie parents and children to take on the ‘summer screen time cycling challenge’ these school holidays to help get their daily dose of exercise.
Riding and walking to school: it’s complicated
New research from New Zealand delves into the multiple factors that contribute to high levels of active transport in certain school communities.
RACV school speed proposal not low enough
Bicycle Network supports the RACV’s call for lower speed limits outside every school in Victoria, but would like to see it go further.
2019 National Cycling Participation Survey Results
2019 National Cycling Participation Survey is disappointing again. The results show more of the same problems that plague Australian bike riders.
Ride2School to keep on rolling
Bicycle Network's Ride2School program will keep rolling for at least two more years in Victoria with the Andrews Labor Government committing $1.4 million.
Regional VIC schools join forces to promote active transport
Bicycle Network is working with there Colac primary schools and the local council to launch a new initiative to increase physical activity and reduce traffic congestion.
Bike education boost for Mildura students
Mildura Specialist School is the latest lucky recipient of a Ride2School grant, which will be put towards a bike education program for students.
School drop-offs driving pollution hotspots
The health impacts of the daily school drop-offs and pick-up have become so severe in England that driving children to school could be banned, or severely restricted.
Ride2School Day stats roll in
The stats from National Ride2School Day are in and it was our biggest one yet! See how many schools and students around the country got involved in 2019.
Move more, sit less, sleep well
Move more, sit less and make sure you get enough sleep is the latest health message for Aussie children and young people.
Climate gets young people interested in transport
Bicycle Network Tasmania will work with New Town High School to get more students riding to school as part of the Climate Youth Leaders Conference 2019.
Ride2School Day is a blast, more schools should do it
Ride2School Day was held on Friday 22 March, with 29 Tasmanian schools signing up to celebrate it.
Ride2School: more than just a day
On the eve of National Ride2School Day, we encourage everyone to get involved in one of Australia's biggest celebrations of active transport, not just the kids.
The countdown to National Ride2School Day is on
The countdown to National Ride2School Day is on, with Australia set to return to the 1970s next week as students get back on their bikes on Friday 22 March.
MIND. BODY. PEDALING on International Women’s Day
To celebrate International Women's Day, and with Ride2School Day just around the corner, we've delved in to some of the statistics from our MIND.BODY.PEDAL program.
Timely re-think on school boundaries
A review of how school zone boundaries are set is underway, and Bicycle Network would like to see the opportunity for active travel to school taken in to consideration.
Warming up for Active April
The Premier's Active April encourages Victorians to 30 mins of exercise per day during April, and National Ride2School Day on March 22 is the perfect warm up!
Hope for primary school congestion crisis
A recent article highlighted a congestion issue at a Melbourne primary school that has reached crisis level. The Ride2School team believe they may be able to help.
Ride2School Golden Wheel goes west
Warrnambool West Primary School has received Bicycle Network's Ride2School Golden Wheel for having the best active travel rate in Victoria.
Work starts on Sutherland to Cronulla active transport link
The first stage of an active path connecting south Sydney hubs Sutherland and Cronulla is underway and expected to change the lifestyles of many residents.
Parents stifling active children
Kids are being driven to school instead of riding a bike because parents would rather combine the school drop off in a car with the commute or other trips.
Christmas comes early for young riders
This week some lucky students received an early Christmas present as part of Bicycle Networks 'ugly Christmas jersey' campaign - a brand new Reid bike!
Childhood inactivity at crisis level
A global analysis of childhood physical activity paints a grim picture of Australia — our children are not moving enough and we’re falling behind the rest of the world.
Here’s to teachers!
Happy World Teachers' Day – an opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the valuable work and achievements of our teachers. The Ride2School team says thank you!
Mind. Body. Pedalling on International Day of the Girl
To celebrate the UN’s International Day of the Girl, more than 100 teenage girls from Clayton South’s Westall Secondary College have spent the day focusing on their health and happiness.
United Energy pedal powers Mornington school with $5000 bike donation
Around the Bay naming rights partner United Energy is donating $5,000 to Mornington Park Primary School to pump up their bike ed program and get more students riding.
Mind.Body.Pedal rolls into Melbourne’s south east
Bicycle Network’s award-winning Mind.Body.Pedal initiative is continuing on its crusade to get more young women happy, healthy and active.
Car-free school streets
Vienna is joining cities around the world that are moving to rid school precincts of the scourge of school drops-offs.