Solve the School Run
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
We’re a parent-led charity advocating for safer, greener and cleaner school runs. We combine unique data insights on school travel with real-world, parent-powered solutions from school streets to school buses. Website: https://www.solvetheschoolrun.org
"Automobile-centric community design, or ‘motornormativity’, severely restricts opportunities for children to engage in active transportation and outdoor free play, both critical to their health and well-being. Their decline is a major public health concern." 👉 jech.bmj.com/content/78/1... @bmj.com
Instead of feeling bad turning on a screen so you can get some stuff done, wouldn't more freedom for our kids be wonderful. Imagine! What what would you do? #screenfreechildhood #smartphonefreechildhood #childrensfreedom #londonparents #greenparents
"Don't cross between parked cars," a young girl explains in 1974 when, at least, this was possible. 😮 Between 1994-2024 the number of registered vehicles in the UK grew by 60.4%, from 25.1 million to 40.4 million.* Yet the advice remains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwhM... * Data: Insurance Times
The Green Cross Code | Road Safety | 1970s Road Safety | Drive In | 1974
'Drive in' presenter Tony Bastable speaks to some children on what they know about the 'Green Cross Code' and road safety. First shown: 30/10/1974 If you would like to license a clip from this video…
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Car manufacturers are playing us. 💎 They're profiting massively from selling a glamorous lifestyle to us via expensive, oversized vehicles. 💰️ Selling these huge cars makes them more money. 🤔 They win. 🚸 Who loses?
🟢 "By the mid-2000s, children were spending about 50% less time in unstructured outdoor activities than children did in the 1970s." This piece on why that matters is a must-read if you have young kids.
The children of the 1960s and 70s weren't born tougher — they grew up with the kind of unstructured, unsupervised time one researcher thinks quietly builds resilience - The Artful Parent
We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or child-development researchers. What follows is our reading of the research on childhood and resilience, not advice for any particular…
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Kids should be out exploring, cycling to the park, and enjoying the longer days during the #summerholidays. And we should feel they are safe doing so. 🚸Instead, as our streets fill with larger vehicles, that sense of safety is being eroded. 👉 Follow us to learn the issues around #carspreading
This 1974 TV interview with south London schoolchildren about the Government's child road safety initiative is heartbreaking. 😢 The interviewer chides them for not remembering the meaning of the campaign's massively complicated acronym, SPLINK. (You try!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwhM...
The Green Cross Code | Road Safety | 1970s Road Safety | Drive In | 1974
'Drive in' presenter Tony Bastable speaks to some children on what they know about the 'Green Cross Code' and road safety. First shown: 30/10/1974 If you would like to license a clip from this video…
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🟢 "In a 2023 review in the Journal of Pediatrics, Gray and his co-authors argue that as children’s chances for independent activity fell, young people’s mental wellbeing fell too. " 🥲 Heartbreaking but essential reading for those with young children. artfulparent.com/m-the-childr...
The children of the 1960s and 70s weren't born tougher — they grew up with the kind of unstructured, unsupervised time one researcher thinks quietly builds resilience - The Artful Parent
We are writers and editors, not clinicians, psychologists, or child-development researchers. What follows is our reading of the research on childhood and resilience, not advice for any particular…
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We need to stop blaming children for bad driving, hostile roads and too-big cars. Think they deserve #StreetsForKids ? 👉 Hit follow. Share. Like. #SolveTheSchoolRun #LondonParents #SafeStreets #GrassrootsMovement #SafeStreets
The latest salvo in victim blaming children and making them responsible so drivers don't have to be.
Solve the School Run@solveschoolrun.bsky.social · 2w agoThis insanely out-of-touch government advice for kids on how to cross the road safely would be laughable if it weren't for the 443 children injured on London's roads each year.
Love the “use pedestrian crossings” pic with a car 2/3 of the way into the crosswalk.
We ask everyone else to be as safe as possible so car drivers can be continue being dangerous
Drivers should care too. When you put those larger cars with an extra 10cm each (or 35cm for those big Ford Rangers) on each side of the road, suddenly a street you could drive both ways along at the same time becomes single track, or single track becomes a squeeze to fit down at all.
Car manufacturers are profiting massively from producing these more expensive, oversized vehicles.
Pavement parking is banned in London… but 27 of 33 local authorities allow exceptions. Will councils’ new powers to prevent it make any difference? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pavement parking allowed by half of councils in England
Disability charities say the practice makes streets harder to navigate for wheelchair users and people with limited sight.
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This insanely out-of-touch government advice for kids on how to cross the road safely would be laughable if it weren't for the 443 children injured on London's roads each year.
An absolutely fascinating step-by-step breakdown of how Paris supercharged its school streets and greener, safer child spaces in the city, starting with "almost overnight" sweeping changes during Covid. cities4children.org/blog/how-par...
How Paris transformed 300 School Streets: A Step-by-Step guide - Cities4Children
Between 2020 and 2026, Paris transformed 300 school streets, fully redesigning around 100 of them. This blog shares key lessons from the ground and practical steps to implement school streets…
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Despite the price cut being hailed as "a victory for people power", the new prices remain 50 percent higher than a residential car parking permit.
"High prices lock out residents who need cheap, sustainable transport the most": Campaigners welcome slashed cost of safe bike parking permits after criticism of the "most expensive bike hangars in th...
Campaigners have welcome an announcement by Cardiff Council to expand their provision of secure bike hangars whilst slashing the price of a permit.Cardiff Council was charging residents £120 a year fo...
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theharrispoll.com/articles/wha... 72% of children would rather spend most of their time with friends doing things in-person, without screens, according to new research in the US that polled 522 8- to 12-year-olds.
Phones, freedom, friendship: what children tell us - The Harris Poll
In a continuation of our ongoing research into social media and technology use among children, young adults, and parents, The Harris Poll and Jonathan Haidt, along with his team of researchers,…
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And yet drivers are still prioritised. We must keep showing what is possible!
@walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social · 3w ago🧵 2/2 Schools across the country have showed what is possible right now, with over 780,000 children doing the school run on foot, scooters, cycles or mobility aids. 👏 Read more 👇https://buff.ly/kwum3aw
In the 1970s, 80% of British 7- and 8-year-olds were allowed to go to school unsupervised. By 1990, it was 10%. Would you let your 7-year-old walk to school alone / with other children? If not, why? #streetsforkids @freerangekids.bluesky.social
How children lost the right to roam in four generations
When George Thomas was eight he walked everywhere. It was 1926 and his parents were unable to afford the fare for a tram, let alone the cost of a bike and he regularly walked six miles to his…
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