Schools Require Licence Plates on All Bike

 

YI FENG HO Staff Writer

Riding a bike is one of many types of transportation students use to get to school. Instead of walking or being driven, they ride their bikes to school and leave the bikes on campus until the school day ends. The bikes left at school usually do not need to be specially identified and students will claim their own bikes at the end of school. However, for increased security, Stanley Park High School in South London, United Kingdom required all bicycles on campus to be fitted with a license plate.

This requirement is put in place after one of the students were involved in a collision with a car. Amit Amin, the schoolmaster of the school, believes that doing so would promote cycling to school and improve safety while biking. The school would also have workshops and equipments given to them to protect their safety. On top of that, this will assist others in reporting particularly bad habits of students while riding. Even though this requirement improves the overall safety of students, some people have opposed to this idea, such as Duncan Dollimore of Cycling UK, who believe this act to be parental responsibility. Also, Cycling UK Campaigner Sam Jones stated that people frequently replace their bikes, making this process redundant and discouraging students to ride to school.