London's Walking and Cycling Commissioner on tackling congestion during school term time

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Campaigners are calling for the introduction of US-style "yellow school buses" in a bid to tackle congestion and air pollution during term time.   London’s walking and cycling commissioner Will Norman said its a "big problem" in London.  "On average there are about a quarter of a million car journeys in London based around the school run. A lot of them are based around school trips.   "Getting people to shift those trips from using their car to walking, cycling or scooting to school is really important.  "Our initiatives of over 500 school streets is helping with that, our initiatives working with over 1,000 schools across the city is enabling more kids to do this.  "I would encourage every school to be having have an active travel plan."

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00:00 Well this is a big problem. There are on average across the city on a daily basis about quarter

00:05 of a million car journeys in London are just based around the school run. Now a lot of those

00:10 are local trips because a lot of primary schools are quite close to people where people live.

00:15 So actually getting people to shift those trips from using their car to walking, cycling,

00:21 scooting to school is really important. Our initiatives of over 500 school streets across

00:26 the city is helping with that. Our initiatives working with over a thousand schools across the

00:31 city is enabling more kids to do this. But I would encourage every school to be having an active

00:36 travel plan, talking to their children, talking to their parents about how they can find safe

00:41 routes to school and those walking buses are really fun. The walking buses basically people

00:45 go along pick up their friends on their way to school and it ends up doing a long crocodile of

00:51 kids walking to school through their neighbourhoods.

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