School road safety issues - what works?

[soloula]

As the title says - what have your school or PTA or local authority or all the above done which has actually made a difference to the sheer hell that is the school run and safety around the school in the mornings and afternoons?

I'm aware that on our PTA we're fighting a losing battle but I don't like to go down without a fight.

Anything, however small, that has worked I'd love to hear. Our school are reluctant to start shaming people and handing out confrontational leaflets and things like that but I'm kind of at the stage that we've tried a lot of other things and i don't give a shiny fuck about offending people when kids are having to duck out the way of cars mounting pavements and things.

Equally what did you have high hopes for that fell flat on its face and why?

Why are people so fucking inconsiderate? [that ones more rhetorical...]

www.livingstreets.org.uk/walk-to-school

Rather than telling people off for driving, out school introduced this scheme. Every day they'd ask the kids how they got to school. Walk, drive, park and stride, etc. If they didn't drive for 3 days a week then the kids would get a badge at the end of the month. Kids love badges, dont they?! It became a way to get kids to pester parents to walk not drive, as they wanted to earn the badge.

As a disabled mum, I'd suffered bullying from other parents for parking near school, and found this much more affective. It's was tough to organise 3 school runs a week where someone else could walk him in, but my DS was adamant he had to walk and earn the badge. It's very cheap to implement as well. Good luck OP!

Thanks whatnow40. That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. Pupil power may be the way to go. Going to have a proper look through that website later - thanks!