Best practice: → Carry out a survey to identify how children travel to school; → Ask parents, pupils and teachers to consider making the journey to and from school on foot and its many related benefits: increased physical activity, less urban congestion and air pollution; → Improve road safety awareness of pupils; → Encourage cycling by providing cycle shelters, lockers and shower facilities; → Encourage the use of public transport. Circulate the bus timetables and provide covered waiting areas for pupils and parents; → Encourage staff and parents to take up car share arrangements when coming to school; → Develop a school travel plan (produced in cooperation with the Local Authority).
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