{"id":30173,"date":"2022-11-22T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=30173"},"modified":"2022-11-22T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:12:09","slug":"roath-park-primary-school-encourages-parents-to-abandon-the-school-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/roath-park-primary-school-encourages-parents-to-abandon-the-school-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Roath Park Primary School encourages parents to abandon the school run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A primary school in Roath has asked parents to dump their cars as record numbers of pupils are walking or cycling to school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of children travelling to the school by car or bus has fallen from 35% to 15%, which means 150 more pupils are now walking, cycling or scootering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project, called Active Travel, is an initiative launched by Cardiff Council to encourage more schools to be sustainable. Roath Park Primary School have participated since 2018 and are now 7<sup>th<\/sup> highest in Wales for percentage of pupils walking to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acting headteacher of the school, Mr Lewis Fitzgerald, said that they started the scheme because, \u2018We had a lot of dangerous parking, a lot of very dangerous driving, so for us the priority in the first stage of the project was to try and get as safe a community as we could.\u2019 The school installed a camera to discourage illegal parking, making it safer for pupils who walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#39;s what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/roathparkprm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@roathparkprm<\/a> has achieved with Active Travel since 2019. Our overall aim is to promote the safest and most sustainable ways to travel to \/ from school for all of our learning community. Many thanks to all who have helped so far. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h6QxKKwZT3\">pic.twitter.com\/h6QxKKwZT3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mr. Fitzgerald (@MrLFitzgerald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrLFitzgerald\/status\/1593600267425124352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Roath Park now want to focus on sustainability and protecting the environment through increasing pupils who walk or cycle. According to the school, 65% of their families live behind the school \u2013 but there is no easy access for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are applying for a school street, which would prevent anyone being able to drive down the road at the start and end of the school day. Mr Fitzgerald says, \u2018for us \u2013 it\u2019s essential, its already been agreed by the local authority and the council that it will happen but we\u2019re at the point now where the consultation will begin. It\u2019s likely to be a 12-18 month project.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He admitted that it won\u2019t be possible to get 100% of pupils walking or cycling to school because some children who live far away or have disabilities \u2018need to know it&#8217;s alright to come to school by car.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A primary school in Roath has asked parents to dump their cars as record numbers of pupils are walking or cycling to school. The number of children travelling to the school by car or bus has fallen from 35% to 15%, which means 150 more pupils are now walking, cycling or scootering. The project, called Active Travel, is an initiative launched by Cardiff Council to encourage more schools to be sustainable. 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