We open a series of articles on urban cycling, MyBKFShots by @deteibols
El Project STARS promotes active trips to school, both by bike and on foot, in the nine European cities that participate. In Madrid, there are already 35 educational centers that have joined this sustainable mobility adventure supervised by the City Council, carrying out pedibuses y bike buses.
With a pedibus, The educators accompany the children walking from a meeting point in the neighborhood so that the parents do not drive the car to the school door. and the children arrive walking, playing and activated to start classes. The main objective of STARS is to achieve the development of child autonomy by taking advantage of the enormous pedagogical value of walking and cycling on the street, in the common space, and learning well-defined rules.
With a bikebus, they do it by bicycle. There is a starting point and the children are collected, like stations, to arrive all together after traveling a distance according to the group's capacity. Young cyclists travel along the road through quiet streets and on cycle paths when they exist, learning how to coexist with other road users.. The participation of teachers, parents and volunteers is essential to overcome fears and atavisms. However, a bikebus de STARS It is the end of a very planned work that continues the very important work of the Cyclist Section of the Madrid Police, which teaches traffic rules and a series of cycling skills that they put into practice with schoolchildren on outings around the neighborhood.The bicycled along the main avenues of Madrid are an excellent opportunity to publicize the initiative, put the knowledge acquired into practice in traffic and to bring together the protagonists of all the schools. They are celebrated on the occasion of European Mobility Week, Car-Free Day or simply to bring excitement to the beginning of the year. The organizational work is enormous, since the marches start from all parts of the city and converge at the Plaza de Cibeles, which becomes a party of happy cyclists. Furthermore, since last year, the children and educators of the STARS They open the Three Kings Parade acting as an organized, and surprising, cycling shooting star.You know, this year look for the stars of STARS at the Parade or through the streets of Madrid.Author: @deteibols
