Welcome to the CycleBus Community on ChangeX. The Cyclebus initiative is about giving primary school children the opportunity to cycle safely to school in a safe, healthy, social, and enjoyable environment.
The GortCycleBus is a bit different as we are setting up a CycleBus for Secondary School Pupils and we cycle from Ardrahan to Gort via the main road.
It’s about community involvement where parents, grandparents, teachers, and volunteers all create the conditions for this to happen. Help us cut pollution and traffic congestion around schools. Help us create safe and healthy environments in our neighbourhood schools, and empower children to become responsible and active and give them the freedom and a lifelong love of cycling. Thanks for joining!
Welcome to the CycleBus Community on ChangeX. The Cyclebus initiative is about giving primary school children the opportunity to cycle safely to school in a safe, healthy, social, and enjoyable environment.
The GortCycleBus is a bit different as we are setting up a CycleBus for Secondary School Pupils and we cycle from Ardrahan to Gort via the main road.
It’s about community involvement where parents, grandparents, teachers, and volunteers all create the conditions for this to happen. Help us cut pollution and traffic congestion around schools. Help us create safe and healthy environments in our neighbourhood schools, and empower children to become responsible and active and give them the freedom and a lifelong love of cycling. Thanks for joining!
The weather has been very changeable over the last few days! Wednesday morning was a crips and sunny morning, it was only 4 Degrees Celsius!! Recommend you wear gloves at it was very cold!! Attaching a picture after the Cyclebus arrived at the school, there are now 4 bikes in the bikeshed at Gort Community School. I also took a picture last year, and then there was only 2 bikes! If you are not already added to the Whatsapp group, contact Aoife and she'll add you!
You can contact her via the member section.
We will be doing a short refresher training on Monday afternoon with the TY Students, to go over some basic bike safety, Rules of the road, brakes, and quick refresher on how to look- signal - look and answer any questions you may have !
It's only early days, but as you can see from these pictures, back in May 2020 there were 2 bikes in the bikeshed with a school of almost 1000 pupils and staff. Since we started the cyclebus for the TY students, there are now 4 bikes! We will continue the cyclebus ( weather permitting) and encourage anyone TY that live between Ardrahan and Gort to join us.
Attaching an image I took as we waited at Tannian's Forge /Cummins kitchens to join the cyclebus to cycle into Gort . We had a gorgeous day for it, let's hope it stays dry this evening also.. I took GoPro footage, just piecing this together! There is a hill at Kiltartan which isn't the easiest but all did well. Getting off your bike is no shame, it's a challenging hill!
Have a nice day,
Katleen
Ms. Aoife Lynskey has kicked the Gort Cycle Bus for TY students! We hope to arrange the cyclebus for 13 weeks as part of the Gaisce Award that TY can take