A 'walking school bus on bicycle wheels' is how the authors of a new report funded by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) describe the latest school transport initiative they have developed guidelines for - the cycle train. We have grown accustomed to the sight of walking school buses - orderly groups of children, with an 'adult conductor' at their head, making their way to and from school on foot, picking up new passengers en route. Introduced in the late 1990s, walking school bus networks have since been set up for hundreds of New Zealand schools, with more setting out all the time.
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