Show your support for car-free streets around schools
Encouraging cycling and walking to school must go hand-in-hand with disincentives to drive, or at the very least, measures to encourage parents to park further away from the school and walk the last section of their journey. A study published in Feburary 2018 by the environmental law organisation Client Earth revealed that 60% of parents surveyed want traffic diverted away from school gates at the beginning and end of the school day and another report by Living Streets showed that three in ten parents are put off walking to school by poor air quality.
Inspired by these figures, and by successful exclusion-zone schemes around schools in areas such as Solihull, Croydon and Edinburgh, next week Councillor Noel Kavanagh, cycling champion at Cambridgeshire County Council, will propose a motion that a no-car zone be trialled around three primary schools in Cambridge for a period of 18 months. We encourage you to contact your local councillor to support this motion. You can find and contact the County Councillor for your area at https://www.writetothem.com/