Footscray’s Community Bike Hub has expanded by recently taking over management of the Brimbank Traffic School in Keilor Downs.
The traffic school situated next to the Green Gully soccer club has long been a place where local residents of all ages can come and learn how to ride a bike and the Community Bike Hub’s Jeremy Canny-Smith said that hasn’t changed.
“Our mission is just to get more people on bikes in the west at the end of the day and bums on seats,” said Mr Canny-Smith who is also one of the instructors at traffic school.
He said local schools groups had been among their most frequent customers since taking over late last year.
“We’ve had quite a few (school groups) already, mainly preps to year two,” he said.
“It’s a mixture of bike skills as well as physically learning to ride at that age.”
Mr Canny-Smith said adults were catered for too.
“We had a group of female refugees who were gifted bikes and then got put through a bike course.”
The bike course takes place on a purpose built track with traffic lights to resemble real life traffic conditions.
With cycling continuing to grow in popularity in the west, Mr Canny-Smith there’d never been a better time for people in the area to learn.
“It also dovetails with the infrastructure we’re getting in the west, like the new veloway to Docklands as an example.”
Details: communitybikehub.com.au/brimbank-traffic-school/
