Bikeability questions answered

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If government funding of £40 / person for parents and carers were available to deliver at or around the time children received training how effective would this be in encouraging children to cycle on roads after their training?

Has any research been done on this?

If government funding of £40 / person for parents and carers were available to deliver at or around the time children received training how effective would this be in encouraging children to cycle on roads after their training?

Has any research been done on this?

Good question. There has been research (in London) that showed that parents are the main barrier to allowing trained children to ride to school. There would need to be funding to promote such a concept making in clear to parents why they should access training.

The real wins in getting children to ride to school, is joining up training with other iniatives, such as, user groups, school champions, bike clubs in schols, and making these iniatives national.

Quite often teachers (or heads) are barriers too. there needs to be a concneted campaign to bring them on board.

Sometimes coecion, such as you cannot park your car within 100 metres of the school helps too.

How can TABS contribute to these initiatives. Don't CTC and Sustrans do a lot of stuff like this?

How can TABS contribute to these initiatives. Don't CTC and Sustrans do >a lot of stuff like this?

Yes Sustrans and CTC do great work in promoting cycling to schools. TABS members generally have close contacts with schools built over time and trust. TABS is working with DfT, CTC and Sustrans on developing a national scheme for encouraging cycling in schools.
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