Schools get safety boost
Parents walking with their children and pupils cycling to school in the Felinfoel and Dafen areas are going to be a lot more comfortable this winter.
Seven schools within this community are beginning to see the benefit of the£388k Safer Routes in the Community funding secured from the Assembly.
The purpose of the scheme is to encourage a more sustainable lifestyle and better commuting facilities to and from schools.
Each of the schools will benefit from secure cycle shelters, parent waiting shelters and improved routes.
Through educating and providing training for both pupils and parents it is hoped the car will be left at home more often with cycling and walking becoming more popular.
The Council is also working with Prince Philip Hospital to provide facilities which will encourage staff there to use sustainable transport to and from work.
The Council is in the process of bidding for additional funding to provide traffic calming, highway improvements and further walking and cycling routes which will create a safer environment for the residents within Dafen and Felinfoel to live, work and travel.
In addition to traffic calming initiatives planned, parent and bike shelters are being built for the primary and secondary catholic schools St Mary’s and St John Lloyds in Havard Road, Bryngwyn Comprehensive, Ysgol Dewi Sant and Penygaer Primary Schools.
Work has been completed at St Mary’s school on the parent shelter and cycle store for up to 10 bikes and a cycle compound for 48 cycles has been provide at St John Lloyds.
Similar shelters will be completed at Penygaer School before Christmas.
This autumn similar works are programmed to be carried out elsewhere in the locality.
Dafen CP, Halfway CP and Prince Phillip Hospital will also be provided with the shelters.
County executive board member for transport services Cllr Haydn Jones said: “The Council’s effort to provide safer routes to schools across the county has been upheld as a model of the way forward.
“Shelters for school pupil bikers and shelters for parents have been well received and used and proving a tremendous success.”
St John Lloyd’s Catholic School has a brand new store for 48 pupil’s cycles.
St Mary’s Primary Catholic School has benefitted with a bike store and parents shelters in the Safe Routes to Schools project delivered in partnership by the County Council and Assembly.
Seven schools within this community are beginning to see the benefit of the£388k Safer Routes in the Community funding secured from the Assembly.
The purpose of the scheme is to encourage a more sustainable lifestyle and better commuting facilities to and from schools.
Each of the schools will benefit from secure cycle shelters, parent waiting shelters and improved routes.
Through educating and providing training for both pupils and parents it is hoped the car will be left at home more often with cycling and walking becoming more popular.
The Council is also working with Prince Philip Hospital to provide facilities which will encourage staff there to use sustainable transport to and from work.
The Council is in the process of bidding for additional funding to provide traffic calming, highway improvements and further walking and cycling routes which will create a safer environment for the residents within Dafen and Felinfoel to live, work and travel.
In addition to traffic calming initiatives planned, parent and bike shelters are being built for the primary and secondary catholic schools St Mary’s and St John Lloyds in Havard Road, Bryngwyn Comprehensive, Ysgol Dewi Sant and Penygaer Primary Schools.
Work has been completed at St Mary’s school on the parent shelter and cycle store for up to 10 bikes and a cycle compound for 48 cycles has been provide at St John Lloyds.
Similar shelters will be completed at Penygaer School before Christmas.
This autumn similar works are programmed to be carried out elsewhere in the locality.
Dafen CP, Halfway CP and Prince Phillip Hospital will also be provided with the shelters.
County executive board member for transport services Cllr Haydn Jones said: “The Council’s effort to provide safer routes to schools across the county has been upheld as a model of the way forward.
“Shelters for school pupil bikers and shelters for parents have been well received and used and proving a tremendous success.”
St John Lloyd’s Catholic School has a brand new store for 48 pupil’s cycles.
St Mary’s Primary Catholic School has benefitted with a bike store and parents shelters in the Safe Routes to Schools project delivered in partnership by the County Council and Assembly.
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