Washington State Leads Nation in Kids Bike Safety Education

Cascade Bicycle Club is proud to be a key participant in the effort to teach school kids across Washington state the vital life skills of how to safely bike, walk and roll through their communities.

Children who learn the rules of the road and develop safe cycling skills are more likely to become adults who bike and use active transportation throughout their lives. 

“Teaching bike skills to our youth is one of the most common sense investments we can make in our future because it makes our roads safer for everyone,” says Cascade Executive Director Lee Lambert. "Kids who learn how to safely get around by bike grow up to be safer drivers, if they choose to drive at all.”

A Record Setting Year for Let’s Go Bike Education 

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As school kids enjoy their summer vacations, Cascade is celebrating the success of Washington state’s Let's Go bike safety education in classrooms statewide. 

More than 92,000 elementary and middle school kids learned Let’s Go bike safety skills during the 2025-2026 school year that ended in June. 

• 62,000 of these students received bike safety instruction in their physical education classrooms through the Statewide Let’s Go bike education program.
• Another 30,000 kids in the Seattle region learned bike safety as part of Cascade’s Let’s Go-Local bike curriculum.

“No state in the nation is doing more than Washington to teach young people how to safely bike,” says Lambert. “Cascade is proud to be the organization chosen by the Washington State Department of Transportation to implement in-school and after-school bike education programs for kids across Washington.”

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Teaching Bike Skills in School Since 2016

Cascade has provided youth bike education to Seattle and Edmonds public schools since 2016. That curriculum is now expanding thanks to the Statewide School-Based Bicycle Safety Education Program administered by the Washington State Department of Transportation and delivered by Cascade.

Funding for the statewide youth bike education programs comes from Washington state’s Climate Commitment Act.

The goal of the statewide and local Let’s Go initiatives is to advance public health, improve transportation safety and equity, and reduce climate pollution by teaching a new generation of youth the life skills of walking, biking, and mass transit as primary forms of mobility.

Watch the video below to see how the Let's Go bike safety curriculum is being taught in Evergreen Public Schools.

130,000+ Students Next Year

While 92,000 students taught is an impressive number, that figure will grow when schools re-open for the 2026-2027 fall semester. By the end of the school year in 2027, we expect the number of schoolchildren receiving Let’s Go education through the Statewide and Local initiatives will top 130,000.

The statewide school-based bike education programs will continue to grow in coming years, with a goal of teaching 90 percent of Washington’s school children the life skill of safe cycling. Learn more in our 2025 video, below, about the big impact of Cascade's bike education programs.