Walk To School, a campaign jointly promoted by The National Travelwise Association and Living Streets, aims to raise awareness of the benefits that children and their parents can gain by walking to school.
To encourage local authorities to provide better data on how many pupils are walking to school, Young TransNet has developed a Hands Up Survey tool, which will be tested in two local authority areas - Essex and Oxfordshire - during the summer term. It is planned to make the tool more widely available for the Autumn Walk To School campaign on 4 - 8 October 2004
"Walking is a great way for children and parents to spend time together and get to know their neighbourhood," said Andrew Stuck, Young TransNet co-ordinator.
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