Solve the School Run
banner
solveschoolrun.bsky.social
Solve the School Run
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
We’re a parent-led charity advocating for safer, greener and cleaner school runs. We combine unique data insights on school travel with real-world, parent-powered solutions from school streets to school buses.
Website: https://www.solvetheschoolrun.org
Pinned
Today is International Children’s Rights Day 🌍👧👦 and we are excited to announce the launch of our new #StreetsforKids London election campaign - a collaboration with
@cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.
Glad to see our research in the Daily Mail in a really thoughtful and well researched piece from Elizabeth Haigh.
This is the untold story of millions of children making their way to school in levels of unacceptable danger. We need #streetsforkids

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Girl, 12, in hit-and-run as 440 kids injured each year on school run
Aaishah Mohammed, then 12, was walking home with her eight-year-old sister when a car came careering around a corner and struck her head-on, leaving her needing emergency surgery.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
480,000 London car trips per day are down to the school run 😮

👉 Follow us and support our campaign to make your school run cleaner, greener, safer – and way more fun than sitting in a traffic jam!

#SolveTheSchoolRun #SaferRoadsForAll #parentinghacks
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This isn't Amsterdam. (Honest!)

We successfully campaign for more cycle lanes, school streets, zebra crossings, 20mph speed limits and parking controls, all of which can make school zones safer places to walk, ride or scoot

👉 Want to know more? bit.ly/3X4M5M9

#solvetheschoolrun #primaryschool
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Our latest research with @cleancitiescampaign.org released this week shows:

🚨443 children are injured on the London school run each year - an entire primary school of children

🚑16% of these are serious injuries

We need change. We need #streetsforkids.

www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/mum-sha...
Mum shares story of her 12 year old daughter’s hit and run as research shows entire primary school injured every year during school run
Press release - Mums shares story of her 12 year old daughter's hit and run as research shows an entire primary school injured every year during school run.
www.solvetheschoolrun.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
❓Want to start using a cargo bike to rev up your school run?

Just imagine you and your kids zipping up quiet back streets, skipping traffic jams and no more, "Are we there yet?" Bliss!

👉 Our newsletter has bags of intel and advice! bit.ly/3X4M5M9

#SolveTheSchoolRun #cargobikes #parentinghacks
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🥳 We're now on Facebook! We'd wheely love you to join us there.

👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/49rbsyV
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Today is International Children’s Rights Day 🌍👧👦 and we are excited to announce the launch of our new #StreetsforKids London election campaign - a collaboration with
@cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.
November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Join us over on Instagram! We'd wheely love to see you there 🚲 🚲 🚲

At Solve the School Run our mission is to create safe, clean, green and easier ways for parents to to get their kids to school.

👉 bit.ly/49rbsyV

#solvetheschoolrun #roadsafety #londonparents
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Want to feel safer cycling your children to school❓

We can help! 🤸🏿

🚸 We're campaigning for sustainable travel and to make it easier for parents to to get their kids to school.

💡 Sign up to our newsletter for updates 👉 bit.ly/3X4M5M9 #solvetheschoolrun
November 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Want a better solution for your children's journey to school?
Sign up for our newsletter 👉 bit.ly/3X4M5M9
#solvetheschoolrun #roadsafety #londonparents
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Solve the School Run
With the world heating up [and more pedestrians being killed], why are more SUVs being sold?

“It’s the industry that has driven the demand through huge marketing & advertising campaigns in recent years. SUVs offered the industry a simple way of charging more for a vehicle that does the same thing.”
With the world heating up, why are more SUVs being sold?
Despite dire predictions of climate breakdown, more Sports Utility Vehicles are being spotted on, and off, the roads.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
😮 A sobering statistic for Road Safety Week... In the UK, SUVs are three times more likely to kill a child under the age of 10 and heavier cars are more likely to be involved in fatal collisions.

Source: @cleancitiescampaign

#roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
❓Which boroughs have the highest school-run driving rates?

🚗 In London 65% of primary school journeys over 1 mile in length are driven.

👉Find out in our first-of-its-kind data dashboard bit.ly/3JdNXii

#solvetheschoolrun #roadsafety
School Run Data | Solve the School Run
View our interactive dashboard and explore data on the school run in your London area.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It was great to see @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social , Deputy Leader of Lambeth Council and @willnorman.co.uk, London’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner
today on an epic bike bus organised by @solverosendale.bsky.social.

It was to celebrate one year of their amazing and transformational school street!
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Reposted by Solve the School Run
Great to join mums, dads, kids and teachers today scooting and cycling to school on the Solve The School Run bike bus and to celebrate Rosendale Road School Street’s 1st birthday. Thanks to @willnorman.co.uk for joining us this wet and soggy but joyous morning! @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🥳 We're now on Facebook, too! bit.ly/49rbsyV
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
🫵🏻 Want your children’s school to have School Street designation?

🚸 It creates priority for families cycling or walking by closing the road during drop-off and pick-up.

🚦All children should feel going to and from school!

👉 More info bit.ly/47dyTJu

#SchoolRun
Take Action | Solve the School Run
Fed up with your school run? Take a look at some of the solutions - from school streets and zebra crossings to ditching your daily car trip for a school bus.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🥳 Come join us! bit.ly/49rbsyV
November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Reposted by Solve the School Run
Based on current fatality rates, 106 people will be killed in crashes on Birmingham’s roads during the 2026 to 2030 council term.

We are partnering as an unprecedented coalition of 16 national and local organisations to ask the politicians of tomorrow: Will you make Birmingham’s roads safer?
Will you make Birmingham's roads safer?
Better Streets joins with 15 organisations to make ten asks of tomorrow's politicians to address road safety.
betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 AM
😮 In London 65% of primary school journeys over 1 mile in length are driven.

❓How many children are travelling over 1 mile to your school?

👉 Find out in our first-of-its-kind data dashboard: bit.ly/3JdNXii #solvetheschoolrun
School Run Data | Solve the School Run
View our interactive dashboard and explore data on the school run in your London area.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Want to start using a cargo bike to improve your school run, but don’t know where to start? We have all the experience, information, tips and support you need!

👉 bit.ly/47dyTJu

#SolveTheSchoolRun #cargobikes #schoolrun #parentinghacks
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Half term is so visibly over, right?

🚸 And it has a HUGE knock-on effect on traffic.

🚗 In some areas the school run has been reported to increase pollution and bus times by a staggering 50% compared to school holidays! How were your local roads last week?

#londonparents
November 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hey... we're now Solving the School Run on Facebook, too!

👋 Please do drop by to say hi!

👉 bit.ly/49rbsyV

#solvetheschoolrun #parentinghacks #roadsafety #londonparents
Solve The School Run
Solve The School Run. 10 likes · 7 talking about this. We're a parent-led charity that works with families, commuities and local authorities to create safer, greener and healthier journeys to school
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“The way to reduce school transport costs in the long term, is to first invest in walking and cycling infrastructure that is safe enough for children to travel on independently, as they do in many European countries.”

☝️Our quote in Schoolsweek

schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-counc...
Reform council's school transport cut call 'Victorian'
Phillipson rejects call to extend the distance children can be expected to make their own way to school
schoolsweek.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM