Sustainable Modes of
Travel to School Strategy
The Newham Sustainable Modes of
Travel to School Strategy has been put developed with the
assistance of stakeholders from across the borough.
It outlines how we will assist schools to develop, implement and
maintain School Travel Plans and how we will promote, encourage and
enable sustainable travel across the borough to meet our duties
under the Education and Inspections Act (2006).
The overall aim of this strategy is to foster a positive change in
the travel patterns of school communities towards safer, healthier,
and more sustainable journeys to school. It will guide us in making
walking, cycling and public transport a realistic and attractive
option for journeys to and from schools and colleges in the
borough.
The strategy aims to:
- Reduce the number people travelling to school and college by
car and increase the numbers walking and cycling
- Reduce the carbon footprint of the journey to school in
Newham
- Improve the information that parents and pupils have about the
different ways they can travel to school
- Improve the safety of routes to and from schools in the
borough
- Improve the health and wellbeing of children in the
borough
- Improve accessibility to, from, and between schools and
colleges in the borough
School Travel Plans are and will remain the main mechanism for
implementing safer, more sustainable routes to school in
Newham.
By critically examining the school journey and encouraging schools
to seek practical solutions to the travel issues that affect them
they are already making a real difference to the lives of our
school communities.
Newham Council is committed to promoting travel plans as a means of
redressing the impact of car dependency and to negate its effect on
congestion, pollution and children's physical and social
development.