The council’s vision is to encourage parents and young people to use alternatives to the car for ‘the school run’ by promoting school travel plans and involving young people in their development. 

Plans may include a range of measures e.g. safer routes to school, walking buses, cycling facilities and the yellow bus scheme’.  The government wants all schools to have a travel plan in operation by 2010.

The Education and Inspection Act 2006 has introduced a new duty for council’s to plan for future sustainable travel to school. A strategy setting out the council’s approach to providing for sustainable travel to school is now in preparation.