Sustainable Travel
During the month of Decemeber the Sustainable Travel and Raod Safety Awareness Officer was involved in providing road safety training and cycling promotion activities to Regina Mundi College Transition Year Students. For road safety, the students used Virtual Reality headsets which simulated being involved in a car accident. The impactful video gave students as close to real life experience of being in a car crash. Following this was a discussion on road safety which gave the students a greater perspective on road safety. The students had fun making healthy smoothies with two smoothie bikes provided by Cork City Council, the smoothie bikes use pedal power provided by the student to turn the blades on a blender attached to the bike.
In December the Sustainable Travel Awareness section was involved in promoting and assisting school cycle buses. The idea is that the children would meet at an agreed location and cycle together to school providing extra safety. In the dark December mornings, the children brought colour with Christmas lights and music provided by the Cork Cycling Campaign creating a festival atmosphere. The cycle buses were huge successes with children and schools. The cycle buses are parent lead and took place in Beaumont Girls & Boys Schools and Bishopstown Boys school.
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