The initiative transforms roads outside schools into low-traffic priority zones—creating safer spaces for children to walk, cycle, scoot, or wheel to school. The council says the goal is to “make school journeys healthier, safer, and more enjoyable
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00:00three more primary schools in Bristol may soon see big changes right outside of their gates
00:09changes that aim to put children's safety first Oasis Academy Bank Lees in Lawrence Weston
00:16Shirehampton Primary School and Headley Park Primary School in Bishopsworth are the latest
00:22to propose joining Bristol City Council's School Streets programme the initiative transforms
00:30road outside of schools into low traffic priority zones creating safer spaces for children to walk
00:37cycle scoot or wheel to school the council says that the goal is to make school journeys healthier
00:43safer and more enjoyable if approved vehicles would be banned from these zones for up to one
00:51hour during school drop-off and pick-up times that means that no cars during the busiest times of day
00:58except for emergency vehicles blue badge holders and residents with permits at Oasis Academy Bank Lees
01:07Corbett close would be restricted from 8 25 to 905 in the morning and again from 2 45 to 3 30 in the
01:16afternoon Monday through to Friday during term time if these proposals do go ahead it would bring the
01:23total number of schools in the school street scheme to 16 across Bristol and with Bristol's primary
01:31school population topping over 38,000 pupils these changes could mean a safer start and end to the
01:40school day for thousands more children