Children-safe Routes to School
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What: Support children's and young people's transit to and from school through active travel (walking or cycling).
- Host workshops with local officers and schools to identify barriers for students walking or cycling to school and map potential key routes to school with local families and students.
- The proposed Safe Romford Road Crossings will also help connect the north and south of the area. Make safe routes visible in the public realm through wayfinding tacticts, using colour on streets and signage on lamposts.
- Consider the opportunity to organise local 'walking school buses', with parents taking turns to take kids to school. In such a case, support should be provided for the walking guide's vetting,road safety training etc.
Where: TBD
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Profile of Rosie Whicheloe
Posted by:Rosie Whicheloe
5 years ago
Any improvements to highways can make opportunities for "play on the way" e.g. a new sustainable drainage system can double up as a raised wall to scooter on - see Australia Road, in white city (Ealing Borough).
Profile of Sarah Jones
Posted by:Sarah Jones
5 years ago
This is really important, we need to improve safety for children travelling to school, and anything that encourages walking and cycling is positive given the pollution,
Profile of Kate Byrne
Posted by:Kate Byrne
5 years ago
Extensive work has already been done in other boroughs and countries to work out ways to encourage children to cycle to school. Sustrans have been running workshops for years, along with London Cycling Campaign and local boroughs, to identify how to do it. It is almost the case that you don't need more workshops to find out the barriers - the information is already there. Furthermore, the information exists on how to implement cycling and walking to school programmes. But an excellent idea to map key routes to school with local families.
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