The Government has promised 50m to help schools develop action plans "to promote safe and healthy travel to school". Transport secretary Alistair Darling says: "At ten to nine in the morning around one in five cars on the road is on the school run and we are all aware of the extra congestion this causes."
But parents say that existing traffic makes it unsafe for young children to go to school alone. Would it not be better to tackle the root cause of the problem rather than one of its symptoms? Is it unfair to blame parents and kids? Aren't the four out of five cars on the road not on the school run the cause of congestion?
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