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Parking ban call

Date published: 11 January 2010

Greater Manchester Health Commission wants a ban on parents parking outside schools in a bid to curb child obesity.

It wants residents–only parking around school premises so youngsters can gain exercise by walking or cycling to school, and has sent the recommendations to the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities in the hope that local councils will take up the guidelines.

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Well thats ok for parents who don't drop their children off on the way to work or live close enough to walk.
I would not fancy accompanying my 7 year old grandson walking from Wardle to Littleborough school and back every day, and the idea of cycling on Halifax Road through Dearnley and up Whitelees Road is a definite no, no.
I work in Littleborough I drop him off on my way to work each day and either me or his mum picks him up (her shift allowing).

This is the first sensible suggestion I have heard about having school children walk to school.
I walked from Belfield to Heybrook never did me any harm. Others could catch a bus.
In those days no buses travelled the length of Albert Royds Street.
When I was too young to go on my own I was taken by a neighbour.
The only thing that parked outside school was the school bus.