If you’ve received a bicycle from Youth en Route at one of our giveaways, you’ve probably picked up a copy of our information booklet. We created this as a guidebook for new riders so that everything they would need to know about cycling in Calgary is available to them in one tangible resource. Let’s explore…
By Iván Osorio Avila The earlier a community -and its individuals- learn to do something, the more adept they become at it and the more of a customary activity it will be. A key strategy to support a mid-term future with more active transportation, as with many things in life, is through education. Whether empirical…
When we ask high school students why they don’t ride to school, an average of 25 per cent cite the risk of theft as a reason – the number is as high as 42 per cent at some schools. Youth en Route has implemented many innovative solutions to give students more confidence that their wheels…
Youth en Route collects donated and salvaged bikes, fixes them up and gets them into schools and places where they’ll be ridden. But if the structural integrity of the frame is compromised, through rust, cracking or dents, the bike frame lands in metal recycling. Until now. We wanted to find a use for these old…
