Asked by: Chris Grayling (Conservative - Epsom and Ewell)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether it is his policy to extend the school streets initiative outside London.
Answered by Rachel Maclean
All local authorities in England are already able to install School Streets, as they consist of standard traffic management measures readily available to them.
The Active Travel Fund, announced on 9 May, is providing £225 million to local authorities to help them make changes to their road layouts to encourage active travel. Alongside this, the Department published additional Network Management Duty guidance providing advice on what changes the Government expected local authorities to make. School Streets are one of the measures listed.
‘Gear Change: A bold vision for cycling and walking’, published on 28 July, also includes a commitment to create more School Streets, to help deliver the ambition that half of all journeys in urban areas should be walked or cycled.