Under the supervision of adult volunteers sometimes parents and children are collected from bus stop and dropped off at the school gates and somewhere parents want to go. Along the way they learn how safely the road and have an opportunity to to see and share stories with their friends and neighbours. What a great way to travel to school! Walking school buses also make an effort to reducing the amount of traffic around schools - in Auckland there are more than 200 working walking school buses, with over 4,000 children regularly walking to school. That’s a lot of active feet on the street.
Walking buses usually begin at 8.30am, but this depends on length of the route and the stop that the children get on at. Routes vary in length, usually about 1.5 km and/ or a maximum 30 minute walk. Most walking school buses walk the reverse route in the afternoon.
A walking school bus can operate all five days of the school week or as little as one day per week, depending on if the bus is okay for the people who goes inside the walking school
