Greater Manchester's mayor has promised to create 100 School Streets.
Volunteers and campaigners have backed plans to close roads around Greater Manchester to keep kids safe on the school run.
St Thomas' CE Primary School in Stockport is one school that decided to take part independent of TfGM, after gaining funding from Stockport council. Mr Hunt said he was "one of those parents who would drive on the school run out of habit", but now he regularly walks instead. With the school working across two sites, there are 50 volunteer slots to fill each week, which as Mr Evans points out is "not easy when it's minus two degrees and freezing."
Richard Nickson, TfGM’s active travel network director, highlighted that the transport network has worked with all ten of Greater Manchester's districts to support the trialling of School Streets, and that they are now exploring how to roll it out elsewhere. “The Mayor of Greater Manchester has outlined plans to build on the success of School Streets pilots across the city-region, and TfGM is currently exploring with active travel commissioner Dame Sarah Storey how we can support the ambition of creating 100 School Streets over the coming mayoral term.”
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