Photo: Peter Yeung | Reasons to be Cheerful
In Robert Doisneau elementary school in Seine-Saint-Denis, the poorest of France’s 96 regions, kids wearing yellow and black helmets and fluorescent safety vests are learning to cycle. It’s part of a national scheme to teach young people in France how to safely navigate the streets on two wheels which began in 2019. The 10-week program, Savoir Rouler à Vélo (Know How to Bike), aims to scale its capacity for training school kids aged six to 11 until reaching about 850,000 pupils per year in 2027. The government is investing €250 million ($270 million) program in Plan Vélo, or Bike Plan, every year between 2023 and 2027. Roughly 20% of the students trained in the program come from the poorer, so-called “priority neighborhoods” in France.
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