Busing is a service contracted by School Districts so it falls 
outside the policies I was referring to.

We shouldn't be accepting status quo.  We should be striving to 
make biking a viable, convenient and safe choice for getting 
students to school.

Mike Rewey

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Date sent:              Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:44:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:                   s meiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:                Re: [Bikies] Safe Routes To Schools Coordinator & Policy
To:                     Michael Rewey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]

I doubt that changing the policy will make much difference in the number of 
kids who bike to school. When people have asked parents about their 
transportation choices parents say they drive their kids to school primarily 
for convenience and for safety reasons.  I'd imagine those are the same 
reasons so few parents let their kids bike to school.
   
  I am not a lawyer and can't speak to what districts can or can not do in 
terms of off campus activities. But there are policies in place for busing kids 
so bicycling is not the only transportation option that is regulated by MMSD.

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Michael Rewey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
The MMSD policy is amazingly regressive considering that 
Madison is a biking community. What do most principals know 
about biking? Not only that, it is the only mode to get to school 
that has policy restrictions. I question the legality of it when one is 
not on school grounds.....

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