At 7:35 a.m. on every Wednesday during the school year, kids and parents meet at the first stop on one of two bike routes to Abernethy Elementary School in Portland for a group ride known as a “bike bus.”
At least 21 Portland schools have bike buses, which are convoys of kids — sometimes dozens — pedaling to school together, flanked by parents, volunteers, and a soundtrack blasting from a speaker mounted on a cargo bike.
The school run can be a slog for some people, but the bike bus is a way to turn that into a little moment of joy and community…