Overview
Active Travel Schools aims to engage schools, and their communities, within the County to improve safety outside the school gate to better support active travel modes on the journey to and from school. It is hoped to achieve this by using a blended approach of engagement, surveys and design consultancy to explore what is possible outside the school gate to reduce the dependency on the private car. The project is supported by the National Transport Authority (NTA) and delivered by South Dublin County Council.
The objectives of the project are:
- Increase the number the people arriving at school by active travel modes and thereby promote better physical health and wellbeing
- Enhance safety for children cycling, walking and scooting to school
- Provide an accessible environment in the vicinity of the school
- Create a pleasant, playful and more welcoming public realm in the vicinity of the school
- Enhance biodiversity in in the vicinity of the school
- Reduce CO2 emissions in the vicinity of the school
- Improve noise and air quality in the vicinity of the school
- Be deliverable in a timely manner
- Be manageable within the resource available to the Council
