Solve the School Run

❓ Did you guess C? If so, you are absolutely right.

🫵 What do you find stressful about your school run - and what would improve it?

#schoolrun #SolveTheSchoolRun #SaferRoadsForAll #kids

Source: @morethan

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This is what happens when you create safe #streetsforkids 👇

🎉Celebrating one year of our ambitious and transformative school street.

💚Happy, safe journeys to school for all these kids.

Our first Streets for Kids manifesto ask?

👉An effective school street for every school.

Even in London where councils have all the powers they need to eliminate pavement parking (and have done since 1978), many councils actively enable pavement driving - this is our walk to school #wandsworth @solveschoolrun.bsky.social @livingstreets.bsky.social @wandsworthls.bsky.social

Sorry to see this, creates congestion on the pavements for children in strollers, scooting, families. Encroaching on pedestrian space, blocking crossings and sight lines .

We need #streetsforkids.

Girl, 12, in hit-and-run as 440 kids injured each year on school run Aaishah Mohammed, then 12, was walking home with her eight-year-old sister when a car came careering around a corner and struck her head-on, leaving her needing emergency surgery.

Glad to see our research in the Daily Mail in a really thoughtful and well researched piece from Elizabeth Haigh.
This is the untold story of millions of children making their way to school in levels of unacceptable danger. We need #streetsforkids

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

480,000 London car trips per day are down to the school run 😮

👉 Follow us and support our campaign to make your school run cleaner, greener, safer – and way more fun than sitting in a traffic jam!

#SolveTheSchoolRun #SaferRoadsForAll #parentinghacks

This isn't Amsterdam. (Honest!)

We successfully campaign for more cycle lanes, school streets, zebra crossings, 20mph speed limits and parking controls, all of which can make school zones safer places to walk, ride or scoot

👉 Want to know more? bit.ly/3X4M5M9

#solvetheschoolrun #primaryschool

Mum shares story of her 12 year old daughter’s hit and run as research shows entire primary school injured every year during school run Press release - Mums shares story of her 12 year old daughter's hit and run as research shows an entire primary school injured every year during school run.

Our latest research with @cleancitiescampaign.org released this week shows:

🚨443 children are injured on the London school run each year - an entire primary school of children

🚑16% of these are serious injuries

We need change. We need #streetsforkids.

www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/mum-sha...

❓Want to start using a cargo bike to rev up your school run?

Just imagine you and your kids zipping up quiet back streets, skipping traffic jams and no more, "Are we there yet?" Bliss!

👉 Our newsletter has bags of intel and advice! bit.ly/3X4M5M9

#SolveTheSchoolRun #cargobikes #parentinghacks

🥳 We're now on Facebook! We'd wheely love you to join us there.

👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/49rbsyV

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Streets for Kids | Solve the School Run London's streets are dangerous and toxic for our children. Join us this election period in asking your council for Streets for Kids.

Find out more about the campaign at the link below and a huge thanks to all our supporters so far @kidicalmasslond.bsky.social @greenschoolruns.bsky.social @lambethlivingst.bsky.social @solverosendale.bsky.social @lewishamcyclists.bsky.social

www.solvetheschoolrun.org/streetsforkids

With our latest research showing 443 children -an entire primary school- injured on the London school run every year, we're asking for:

🏫An effective school street for every school
🚲Access to a cargo bike for every family
👨‍👧Reallocating kerb space in child-friendly ways

Children sitting on a colourful rainbow street illustration

Today is International Children’s Rights Day 🌍👧👦 and we are excited to announce the launch of our new #StreetsforKids London election campaign - a collaboration with
@cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.

Join us over on Instagram! We'd wheely love to see you there 🚲 🚲 🚲

At Solve the School Run our mission is to create safe, clean, green and easier ways for parents to to get their kids to school.

👉 bit.ly/49rbsyV

#solvetheschoolrun #roadsafety #londonparents

Want to feel safer cycling your children to school❓

We can help! 🤸🏿

🚸 We're campaigning for sustainable travel and to make it easier for parents to to get their kids to school.

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#solvetheschoolrun #roadsafety #londonparents

With the world heating up, why are more SUVs being sold? Despite dire predictions of climate breakdown, more Sports Utility Vehicles are being spotted on, and off, the roads.

With the world heating up [and more pedestrians being killed], why are more SUVs being sold?

“It’s the industry that has driven the demand through huge marketing & advertising campaigns in recent years. SUVs offered the industry a simple way of charging more for a vehicle that does the same thing.”

😮 A sobering statistic for Road Safety Week... In the UK, SUVs are three times more likely to kill a child under the age of 10 and heavier cars are more likely to be involved in fatal collisions.

Source: @cleancitiescampaign

#roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun

School Run Data | Solve the School Run View our interactive dashboard and explore data on the school run in your London area.

❓Which boroughs have the highest school-run driving rates?

🚗 In London 65% of primary school journeys over 1 mile in length are driven.

👉Find out in our first-of-its-kind data dashboard bit.ly/3JdNXii

#solvetheschoolrun #roadsafety

Thanks to all the stewards and the police for their help!

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@dulwichroads.bsky.social

Lots of children on their bikes

It took over 6 years of campaigning to get in place, but now ..around 2km of street space, across 3 roads filter what was once 800 cars per hour from creating road danger and pollution around the school.

Now all these kids.. have safe and healthy journeys to school.

👏👏👏👏

It was great to see @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social , Deputy Leader of Lambeth Council and @willnorman.co.uk, London’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner
today on an epic bike bus organised by @solverosendale.bsky.social.

It was to celebrate one year of their amazing and transformational school street!

Two people with bikes holding up signs saying solve the school run

Great to join mums, dads, kids and teachers today scooting and cycling to school on the Solve The School Run bike bus and to celebrate Rosendale Road School Street’s 1st birthday. Thanks to @willnorman.co.uk for joining us this wet and soggy but joyous morning! @solveschoolrun.bsky.social

Fantastic morning. Thank you both for coming, and to the @solverosendale.bsky.social community for such a powerful show of support for their school street!

🥳 We're now on Facebook, too! bit.ly/49rbsyV

Take Action | Solve the School Run Fed up with your school run? Take a look at some of the solutions - from school streets and zebra crossings to ditching your daily car trip for a school bus.

🫵🏻 Want your children’s school to have School Street designation?

🚸 It creates priority for families cycling or walking by closing the road during drop-off and pick-up.

🚦All children should feel going to and from school!

👉 More info bit.ly/47dyTJu

#SchoolRun

Totally. We need streets children can travel on themselves. Freedom for kids, freedom for parents.