School Streets
School Streets in Greater Manchester
Transforming the school run
Greater Manchester is helping transform the school run, putting measures in place that promote cycling, scooting, walking, and wheeling by restricting access to motorised vehicles at school start and finish times.
The aim of the School Streets scheme is to help create a pleasant, child-friendly environment, whilst ensuring residents, local businesses and blue badge holders can still maintain access to the streets. As well as improving the air children breathe, it also aims to reduce traffic and parking pressures outside schools during term time, whilst encouraging more sustainable and active forms of travel to schools.
In most cases, a School Streets project consists of a traffic regulation order and related signage, making the road outside the school a pedestrian zone during drop off and pick up times. Each programme isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach though, with measures adapted to suit each area.
"It's a fabulous win-win situation for all of us"
Listen to GM's Active Travel Commissioner, Dame Sarah Storey, talk about the benefits of the scheme at a School Street in Wigan
"We've had lots of situations of very frightened and upset parents"
Listen to Gavin Shortall, Headteacher at St James' C of E school in Rusholme, talk about his experiences.
Register your interest in a School Street
If your school wants to promote cycling, scooting, walking, and wheeling and could benefit from a school street, then please get in touch.