Traffic cameras are set to be put up outside six schools to help enforce schemes designed to make the roads around them safer
. There are currently only six Wirral School Streets schemes in place but 53 schools have asked if they can join. A school street is a stretch of road that limits traffic during school drop off and pick up times and create a car free zone outside the school gates. Wirral Council which oversees the schemes said this creates “a happier and healthier environment for everyone around the school.
The total budget for school streets is £400,000. The local authority has also received 53 requests to join the school streets scheme which could see significant expansion of the project. However Wirral Council does not believe every one would be suitable and other ways to tackle safety issues outside schools might be better. It has drawn up a policy of how it will look at each school with three more to be set up next year, alternatives to the scheme, as well as options for enforcement.
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