Photo: NZMEThe NZ Transport Agency will spend $23 million over three years to get more children riding bikes, Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter has announced. "New funding for Bikes in Schools will be increasingly targeted towards low-decile primary schools," Genter said at an announcement at Titahi Bay School near Wellington yesterday. Bikes in Schools allowed children to learn and practise riding their bikes in a safe area at school. "In the 1980s more than half of school kids walked or cycled to school. "Cycle skills training is often the first experience Kiwi kids have with the road environment.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 26, 2018 18:22 UTC