Transportation
'Freedom for the Rest of Your Life': Dispatches From the Youth Bike Summit
Young people gather in New York to discuss the future of kids and their bicycles.
Mike Dowd, a teacher at Midwood High School in Brooklyn, wasn’t sure whether an afterschool bike club would be a success when he started it a couple of years ago. Now, he has kids coming up to him in the hallway and asking to join, but has to turn them away because the club can’t handle more than the 40 or so students who are already involved.
“We have far more interest in the school than we can handle,” said Dowd, speaking on a panel about school biking programs at the Youth Bike Summit that just wrapped up in New York City. “Of course, it all makes sense in retrospect. Bicycling is fun. Why wouldn’t they want to do it?”