If your school doesn’t have a Walking School Bus and you think that it should have, you can get your parents or teachers to visit the Land transport authority website at www.ltsa.govt.nz

A Walking School Bus is almost like a normal bus; with bus stops, a driver and a timetable – only it has feet instead of wheels :o).

Walking School Buses reduce traffic and pollution.

Kids you need to take over 10,000 steps a day to stay fit and healthy and what better way than catching the walking school bus.

Did you know

In March 2008, Bryan, Bobby and Suzy Cato all took part in the Walk to school week and caught the walking school bus to Browns Bay Primary School ...Constable Bryan’s old primary school.

Some of the people who took part walking for Walk to school week were Bernice Mene (Dancing with the stars/Silver ferns netball player),The Governor General the honourable Anand Satyanand, and Mrs Susan Satyanand, The Prime Minister and on Waiheke Island in Auckland  they even had the island’s fairy catch the bus...so you never know who will catch the bus
In Tauranga, in 2007, Bellevue School had the whole school involved in Funky Hat Day on the Walk to School Day. Students, teachers and parents met at either of two venues and walked just over 1 kilometre to school wearing the ‘funky hats’ they’d designed...Great Stuff!

The first Walking School Buses started in 2001 at Gladstone Primary School, Mt Albert
There are now Walking School Buses from Stewart Island all the way to Tikipunga in Whangarei

Walking Buses are used in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America

In New Zealand, over eighty six schools run over 176 Walking School Buses; transporting 3,006 children in the Auckland region alone