Tonight we cut ties and explore something a little different for us at Motivate to Move, both Diane and I believe this to be a critical topic. Our two guests this evening have been working hard for a better connection of our active transportation routes in and around our Moncton area. Shannon Emery and Michael Roy are passionate about connecting these routes in a safer, more user-friendly way. Once these connections are made more people will use them, build it and they will come. This leads to the other topic of discussion this evening, bike bus. Shannon has been biking with her twins to school nearly every day, why you might ask? Biking in the mornings for kids used to be a mainstay but now it is considered by many to be unsafe, too many cars going too fast and roads not set up for kids to bike to school. Connecting the routes, making things safer by reducing speeds and education plus some much-needed exercise will go a long way. Some mornings Shannon and her friends have 30 kids biking with them with hopes that more parents will start a bike bus in other parts of the city. Now the city has a full-time active transportation coordinator and things are heating up, can't wait to see what happens next. Active Transportation Coalition Moncton Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/atmoncton/ Motivate to Move email, let us know who should be on our show: [email protected] Our Facebook page, check us out: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100041607699495 As always, give the gift of life and donate blood.