MONTCLAIR, New Jersey (WABC) -- How did you get to school as a young student every morning?

For students in Montclair, New Jersey, it's standard to ride a bike as far as 5 miles.

They do it in big groups called 'bike buses' to build health habits and they have fun doing it.

"On a good weather day, we'll have up to about 400 parents and kids riding to all of our schools across town," Bike Bus organizer Andrew Hawkins said.

Community advocates are also ditching the school bus in favor of the bright yellow vests as part of the town's bike bus.

"So it started with just a small group of parents who wanted to ride with their bikes to school. So we came together and started talking to each other and decided, you know, like, this is something that is we could actually make it a lot bigger th

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