It’s Wednesday morning, and Tim Sergiacomi is leading a dozen kids riding their bikes along the footpath on Annerley Road in Annerley on their way to school, as Life Is a Highway blares from a speaker clipped onto his Bakfiets cargo bike.

This bike bus is an anomaly – 70 per cent of Brisbane students are driven to school , adding thousands of cars to morning and afternoon peak hours.

But for many families who want to walk or ride to school, riding in a group with bright vests for visibility on the narrow footpath is the only way they feel their children are safe and seen on Annerley Road.

Tim Sergiacomi with the bike bus crossing from Annerley Road, across Ipswich Road. Credit: Felicity Caldwell

“A lot of the intersections [on Annerley Road] aren’t really designed for people wa

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