Manchester school streets

Greater Manchester’s active travel commissioner Dame Sarah Storey has joined forces with the region’s mayor to urge schools to make it safer for children to walk, wheel or cycle to school. Dame Sarah and mayor Andy Burnham are writing to schools across the city-region inviting them to develop their own ‘school street’ – to limit traffic during drop off and pick up time.  

Greater Manchester’s ambition to boost the existing number of school streets from 30 to 100 in the next four years was set out by the mayor in his most recent manifesto. As part of the next step in delivering this commitment, the mayor and Dame Sarah visited a School Street which is already having a positive impact in Old Trafford.  

The pair joined a local family for their journey to Seymour Park Community Primary School.  The school has delivered a range of measures to make it safer for families to walk, wheel and scoot, including closing roads to vehicles for a short period each day since January.