Philly parents and students are joining a global movement to reimagine the school commute - Grid Magazine

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Philly parents and students are joining a global movement to reimagine the school commute - Grid Magazine

It’s a Friday morning in October, and there’s a steady stream of cars driving down 43rd Street in West Philly’s Spruce Hill neighborhood. Then, through the traffic, a cavalcade emerges of about 20 parents and children on bicycles — a mix of kids on electric cargo bikes, kids on the front of folding bikes, kids on their own bikes. A minute later, they reach the Penn Alexander schoolyard, where helmets are quickly removed, backpacks are slung onto…