Safe way to school: Erkrath relies on parent taxi alternatives!
Safe way to school: Erkrath relies on parent taxi alternatives!
send children to school on foot instead of delivering them in the parents' taxi - that's the goal of the project "We want to go. On foot instead of parent taxi." At the Erkrath primary school in Falkenstrasse. According to should not only be promoted the independence of the children, but also noticeably improved the traffic situation around the school. Parents can collect active points to their offspring as soon as they come to school on foot, by bike or scooter.
The initiative is particularly important because dangerous situations have occurred on the way to school at the Erkrath primary school in the past. A stop for parent taxis was set up in August 2024 on the corner of Fasanenstraße/Falkenstraße to reduce traffic in front of the school and reduce potential dangers for little pedestrians. Headmistress Nicole Gollata and Sascha Becker, head of traffic safety, draw a positive balance: the acceptance of the parent stop is good, and the number of parent taxis has noticeably decreased.
Security on the way to school - a current topic
The way to school is part of everyday life for many children, but how safe is it really? A current survey by the ADAC Foundation shows that every fourth primary school child is often brought to school with the parents' taxi. One reason for this is time savings and the weather, while only a few parents indicate unsafe ways of school as the main motive .
The survey also showed that 62 percent of parents feel the traffic around schools as problematic and 56 percent see parent taxis as a source of dangerous situations. It is not surprising that 57 percent of the parents surveyed consider their children's way to school as safe, while 44 percent see the greatest danger in the misconduct in the misconduct of other road users. These concerns have been supplemented by a further study of school pathway, which indicates the frequent complaints about distractions by smartphones - and have a disturbing 86 percent of children in secondary schools.
committed elementary school students and parents
Nevertheless, there are also bright spots. Eight classes took part in the action mentioned at the Erkrath primary school, with classes 4a and 4b particularly active and invited by Mayor Christoph Schultz to go to a cinema. Other classes can also look forward to a cinema day at the school, which shows that the sense of community and mobility that offer security can be promoted together.
In this context, the ADAC Foundation starts a new campaign "Safe to school" in order to promote responsibility in road traffic. Need to show more mindfulness in road traffic.
The poll on the way to school shows that many parents consider their own behaviors to be decisive for the safety of their children. 85 percent consider it important to adapt their behavior to avoid dangerous situations. Here it is important to take up the knowledge and the committed steps of schools such as the Erkrath primary school in order to promote going to school in the long term and at the same time to raise awareness of the safety of the children.
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