Big push to close streets round schools in Greater Manchester to boost safety and wellbeing
Multiple gold medallist Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey and Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham teamed up to boost their ‘school streets’ scheme with a walk to school in Trafford . The initiative kicks in when a road outside a school is closed to all traffic - apart from emergency and service vehicles during drop-off and pick-up times - between 8.15am and 9am and 3pm to 3.45pm.
"It’s about saying where there’s a wish of the school and the community around it to go in this direction we’re going to come in and provide the infrastructure to support that. It’s a sort of bottom-up initiative rather than imposing it. I’ve walked with a family to school and we’ve had a great time - a happy start to the day.
The school streets road closure takes place at Seymour Park takes place on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays and is hugely dependent on volunteers, most of whom are parents. Seymour Park headteacher Tom Johnson said: “When we first started the scheme we had a young person who walked out of school and turned to me and said ‘I can’t taste the cars’. That for me stands out as the most powerful thing.
Andy Burnham Greater Manchester Mayor
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