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
Website: https://www.solvetheschoolrun.org
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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.
@cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.
📣 Parents. If cars make your walk or cycle to school feel unsafe, that's not okay.
We need your photos of the school run! The more people can see how awful it is out there - and how unsafe it is for our children - the more power we have. DM pix or tag us in a post.
#streetsforkids #schoolrun
We need your photos of the school run! The more people can see how awful it is out there - and how unsafe it is for our children - the more power we have. DM pix or tag us in a post.
#streetsforkids #schoolrun
January 15, 2026 at 6:21 AM
📣 Parents. If cars make your walk or cycle to school feel unsafe, that's not okay.
We need your photos of the school run! The more people can see how awful it is out there - and how unsafe it is for our children - the more power we have. DM pix or tag us in a post.
#streetsforkids #schoolrun
We need your photos of the school run! The more people can see how awful it is out there - and how unsafe it is for our children - the more power we have. DM pix or tag us in a post.
#streetsforkids #schoolrun
Which London #primaryschool trips are most likely to be driven?
It could depend on your location.
👉🏼Find out the boroughs with the highest rates of school-run driving bit.ly/3JdNXii
It could depend on your location.
👉🏼Find out the boroughs with the highest rates of school-run driving bit.ly/3JdNXii
School Run Data | Solve the School Run
View our interactive dashboard and explore data on the school run in your London area.
bit.ly
January 14, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Which London #primaryschool trips are most likely to be driven?
It could depend on your location.
👉🏼Find out the boroughs with the highest rates of school-run driving bit.ly/3JdNXii
It could depend on your location.
👉🏼Find out the boroughs with the highest rates of school-run driving bit.ly/3JdNXii
📅 Submitted your #primaryschool application?
❓What were your criteria: good teaching, facilities, after-school provision?
🚸 What shouldn't be on the list is how safe you journey will feel. Sadly, though, this is a choice many of us will face.
😡 That's not OK.
#safestreets #londonparents
❓What were your criteria: good teaching, facilities, after-school provision?
🚸 What shouldn't be on the list is how safe you journey will feel. Sadly, though, this is a choice many of us will face.
😡 That's not OK.
#safestreets #londonparents
January 14, 2026 at 6:42 AM
📅 Submitted your #primaryschool application?
❓What were your criteria: good teaching, facilities, after-school provision?
🚸 What shouldn't be on the list is how safe you journey will feel. Sadly, though, this is a choice many of us will face.
😡 That's not OK.
#safestreets #londonparents
❓What were your criteria: good teaching, facilities, after-school provision?
🚸 What shouldn't be on the list is how safe you journey will feel. Sadly, though, this is a choice many of us will face.
😡 That's not OK.
#safestreets #londonparents
There were more than 1 million larger cars - SUVs - sold in 2023. This is around 60% of sales and is projected to be 75% of sales in coming years*.
🚸 We believe children should be safe travelling to and from school.
* Stats @cleancitiescampaign
#carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
🚸 We believe children should be safe travelling to and from school.
* Stats @cleancitiescampaign
#carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
January 13, 2026 at 6:33 PM
There were more than 1 million larger cars - SUVs - sold in 2023. This is around 60% of sales and is projected to be 75% of sales in coming years*.
🚸 We believe children should be safe travelling to and from school.
* Stats @cleancitiescampaign
#carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
🚸 We believe children should be safe travelling to and from school.
* Stats @cleancitiescampaign
#carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
We agree. Also need deterrents for driving increasingly large cars #carspreading
“These new powers do not go far enough to protect pedestrians. It’s disappointing not to see a nationwide prohibition.”
Our @charitycat.bsky.social responds to the news that local authorities will receive legal powers to restrict pavement parking. https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/pavement-parking
Our @charitycat.bsky.social responds to the news that local authorities will receive legal powers to restrict pavement parking. https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/pavement-parking
“These new powers do not go far enough to protect pedestrians | Living Streets
bitly.livingstreets.org.uk
January 13, 2026 at 1:45 PM
We agree. Also need deterrents for driving increasingly large cars #carspreading
It really is great great news! 🎉
🚲Great to see our work featured in this article!😊
Thanks to funding from Lime Bikes and the @londoncycling.bsky.social, and a partnership with @solveschoolrun.bsky.social, this year we'll be promoting cargo bikes for the school run and much more!
👉 haringeycommunitypress.co.uk/2026/01/06/p... 🌱🚴♀️
Thanks to funding from Lime Bikes and the @londoncycling.bsky.social, and a partnership with @solveschoolrun.bsky.social, this year we'll be promoting cargo bikes for the school run and much more!
👉 haringeycommunitypress.co.uk/2026/01/06/p... 🌱🚴♀️
Parent-led charity helps Haringey families go green
Green School Runs allows families to try cargo bikes as a practical alternative to driving
haringeycommunitypress.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 11:05 AM
It really is great great news! 🎉
Here's an easy, positive and meaningful New Year's Resolution 💫
Help us grow our wonderful community, creating #saferschoolruns for kids!
👉 Follow us on other platforms, repost, share or add this to your Stories, tag a friend or DM someone this post!
@solveschoolrun on Insta
#LondonParents
Help us grow our wonderful community, creating #saferschoolruns for kids!
👉 Follow us on other platforms, repost, share or add this to your Stories, tag a friend or DM someone this post!
@solveschoolrun on Insta
#LondonParents
January 11, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Here's an easy, positive and meaningful New Year's Resolution 💫
Help us grow our wonderful community, creating #saferschoolruns for kids!
👉 Follow us on other platforms, repost, share or add this to your Stories, tag a friend or DM someone this post!
@solveschoolrun on Insta
#LondonParents
Help us grow our wonderful community, creating #saferschoolruns for kids!
👉 Follow us on other platforms, repost, share or add this to your Stories, tag a friend or DM someone this post!
@solveschoolrun on Insta
#LondonParents
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When parents are afraid to let their children cycle, that’s not “choice” - it’s policy failure.
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
West Midlands councils struggling to deliver bike safety training
More than half of councils in the West Midlands are seeing a fall in the number of children taking part.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 8:12 AM
When parents are afraid to let their children cycle, that’s not “choice” - it’s policy failure.
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Unsafe roads + patchy Bikeability = less independence, worse health, more car dependence.
Children deserve safe streets.
@solveschoolrun.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Whoops, typo yesterday! Now corrected 👇
🙌 Woo! More #Camden families now get #cargobike access!
👏 @greenschoolruns.bsky.social @limebike.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social
🍰 Local? Cargos & Cakes events @ instagram.com/joinourcargocollective
haringeycommunitypress.co.uk/2026/01/06/p...
🙌 Woo! More #Camden families now get #cargobike access!
👏 @greenschoolruns.bsky.social @limebike.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social
🍰 Local? Cargos & Cakes events @ instagram.com/joinourcargocollective
haringeycommunitypress.co.uk/2026/01/06/p...
Parent-led charity helps Haringey families go green
Green School Runs allows families to try cargo bikes as a practical alternative to driving
haringeycommunitypress.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Whoops, typo yesterday! Now corrected 👇
🙌 Woo! More #Camden families now get #cargobike access!
👏 @greenschoolruns.bsky.social @limebike.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social
🍰 Local? Cargos & Cakes events @ instagram.com/joinourcargocollective
haringeycommunitypress.co.uk/2026/01/06/p...
🙌 Woo! More #Camden families now get #cargobike access!
👏 @greenschoolruns.bsky.social @limebike.bsky.social @londoncycling.bsky.social
🍰 Local? Cargos & Cakes events @ instagram.com/joinourcargocollective
haringeycommunitypress.co.uk/2026/01/06/p...
Noticed quieter roads this week?
🚸 The school Christmas holidays have a HUGE knock-on effect on traffic.
🚗 In some areas, the #schoolrun has been reported to increase pollution and bus times by 50% compared to holidays.
This has to change.
Follow us!
#SolveTheSchoolRun
🚸 The school Christmas holidays have a HUGE knock-on effect on traffic.
🚗 In some areas, the #schoolrun has been reported to increase pollution and bus times by 50% compared to holidays.
This has to change.
Follow us!
#SolveTheSchoolRun
January 8, 2026 at 6:27 AM
Noticed quieter roads this week?
🚸 The school Christmas holidays have a HUGE knock-on effect on traffic.
🚗 In some areas, the #schoolrun has been reported to increase pollution and bus times by 50% compared to holidays.
This has to change.
Follow us!
#SolveTheSchoolRun
🚸 The school Christmas holidays have a HUGE knock-on effect on traffic.
🚗 In some areas, the #schoolrun has been reported to increase pollution and bus times by 50% compared to holidays.
This has to change.
Follow us!
#SolveTheSchoolRun
🚗 Cars - 90% stationary, 30% large SUVs - are dominating London's pavements leaving children unable to see past cars to safely cross their local streets.
📅 We're asking councils for a kerbside strategy by 2027.
👉 Follow us for campaign updates.
#StreetsForKids
📅 We're asking councils for a kerbside strategy by 2027.
👉 Follow us for campaign updates.
#StreetsForKids
January 7, 2026 at 8:42 PM
🚗 Cars - 90% stationary, 30% large SUVs - are dominating London's pavements leaving children unable to see past cars to safely cross their local streets.
📅 We're asking councils for a kerbside strategy by 2027.
👉 Follow us for campaign updates.
#StreetsForKids
📅 We're asking councils for a kerbside strategy by 2027.
👉 Follow us for campaign updates.
#StreetsForKids
Got that back-to-school feeling? Grim isn't it?
🚸 The knock-on effect that term time vs school holidays has on traffic is huge.
🚗 🚗 In some areas the school run has been reported to increase pollution and bus times by 50% compared to school holidays.
Want change?
👉Follow us!
#londonparents
🚸 The knock-on effect that term time vs school holidays has on traffic is huge.
🚗 🚗 In some areas the school run has been reported to increase pollution and bus times by 50% compared to school holidays.
Want change?
👉Follow us!
#londonparents
January 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Got that back-to-school feeling? Grim isn't it?
🚸 The knock-on effect that term time vs school holidays has on traffic is huge.
🚗 🚗 In some areas the school run has been reported to increase pollution and bus times by 50% compared to school holidays.
Want change?
👉Follow us!
#londonparents
🚸 The knock-on effect that term time vs school holidays has on traffic is huge.
🚗 🚗 In some areas the school run has been reported to increase pollution and bus times by 50% compared to school holidays.
Want change?
👉Follow us!
#londonparents
Happy New Year from Solve the School Run!
🚸 What better way to toast 2026 than with a vision of the safer #streetsforkids we're campaigning to create. We love a #bikebus! 🚲 🚲 🚲
You too?
👉 Follow us!
#bikebus #schoolrun
🚸 What better way to toast 2026 than with a vision of the safer #streetsforkids we're campaigning to create. We love a #bikebus! 🚲 🚲 🚲
You too?
👉 Follow us!
#bikebus #schoolrun
January 1, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Happy New Year from Solve the School Run!
🚸 What better way to toast 2026 than with a vision of the safer #streetsforkids we're campaigning to create. We love a #bikebus! 🚲 🚲 🚲
You too?
👉 Follow us!
#bikebus #schoolrun
🚸 What better way to toast 2026 than with a vision of the safer #streetsforkids we're campaigning to create. We love a #bikebus! 🚲 🚲 🚲
You too?
👉 Follow us!
#bikebus #schoolrun
🚨 Every year 443 children are injured on their way to and from school in London.
😡 This is not OK.
💪 With @cleancitiescampaign and @streetsforkids_italia, we're calling on London’s borough leaders to commit to our 3-point manifesto for safer #StreetsForKids
👉 Follow us.
😡 This is not OK.
💪 With @cleancitiescampaign and @streetsforkids_italia, we're calling on London’s borough leaders to commit to our 3-point manifesto for safer #StreetsForKids
👉 Follow us.
December 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
🚨 Every year 443 children are injured on their way to and from school in London.
😡 This is not OK.
💪 With @cleancitiescampaign and @streetsforkids_italia, we're calling on London’s borough leaders to commit to our 3-point manifesto for safer #StreetsForKids
👉 Follow us.
😡 This is not OK.
💪 With @cleancitiescampaign and @streetsforkids_italia, we're calling on London’s borough leaders to commit to our 3-point manifesto for safer #StreetsForKids
👉 Follow us.
Want to start using a cargo bike - but have questions? 🤔 Like...
1️⃣ Are they easy to ride?
2️⃣ What about storage?
3️⃣ How much do they cost?
4️⃣ Should I buy secondhand?
5️⃣ Where can I try one out?
💡 Follow us for tips and advice!
#schoolrun #cargobikes #ParentingHacks
1️⃣ Are they easy to ride?
2️⃣ What about storage?
3️⃣ How much do they cost?
4️⃣ Should I buy secondhand?
5️⃣ Where can I try one out?
💡 Follow us for tips and advice!
#schoolrun #cargobikes #ParentingHacks
December 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Want to start using a cargo bike - but have questions? 🤔 Like...
1️⃣ Are they easy to ride?
2️⃣ What about storage?
3️⃣ How much do they cost?
4️⃣ Should I buy secondhand?
5️⃣ Where can I try one out?
💡 Follow us for tips and advice!
#schoolrun #cargobikes #ParentingHacks
1️⃣ Are they easy to ride?
2️⃣ What about storage?
3️⃣ How much do they cost?
4️⃣ Should I buy secondhand?
5️⃣ Where can I try one out?
💡 Follow us for tips and advice!
#schoolrun #cargobikes #ParentingHacks
🎄🎄🎄 A very merry Christmas to you all, love Solve the School Run x
December 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
🎄🎄🎄 A very merry Christmas to you all, love Solve the School Run x
Reposted by Solve the School Run
Funny how the usual "think about the kids" gang is completely silent about these monsters on our roads..
😮 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
Source: @cleancitiescampaign
#roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Funny how the usual "think about the kids" gang is completely silent about these monsters on our roads..
Reposted by Solve the School Run
Lets just ban SUVs. Nobody needs one. They’re just a car manufacturers wet dream.
😮 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
Source: @cleancitiescampaign
#roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun
November 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Lets just ban SUVs. Nobody needs one. They’re just a car manufacturers wet dream.
Reposted by Solve the School Run
443 children are injured on the school run in London every year.
That's equivalent to an entire primary school of children 😱, and 16% of these injuries are serious.
London’s children deserve safer streets. We need #StreetsForKids.
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/... @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
That's equivalent to an entire primary school of children 😱, and 16% of these injuries are serious.
London’s children deserve safer streets. We need #StreetsForKids.
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/... @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
Mother pleads for safer streets after daughter, 12, nearly killed in hit-and-run
Parents have been holding vigils for safer streets across the capital, with protests in Lambeth, Lewisham and Twickenham
www.standard.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
443 children are injured on the school run in London every year.
That's equivalent to an entire primary school of children 😱, and 16% of these injuries are serious.
London’s children deserve safer streets. We need #StreetsForKids.
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/... @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
That's equivalent to an entire primary school of children 😱, and 16% of these injuries are serious.
London’s children deserve safer streets. We need #StreetsForKids.
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/... @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
Reposted by Solve the School Run
Really great to see this on BBC Newsround 👏
Brilliant to see children’s media tackling road safety and car dominance in such an accessible way. Well done @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
Brilliant to see children’s media tackling road safety and car dominance in such an accessible way. Well done @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Really great to see this on BBC Newsround 👏
Brilliant to see children’s media tackling road safety and car dominance in such an accessible way. Well done @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
Brilliant to see children’s media tackling road safety and car dominance in such an accessible way. Well done @solveschoolrun.bsky.social
Reposted by Solve the School Run
Newsround is consistently over of the BBC’s most considered news outlets:
📣 We were on BBC's Newsround this week!
🙃 The children's news show ran a story on SUVs with Solve the School Run and it's honestly one of the best SUV explainers we've seen!
Catch the full segment here: bbc.co.uk/newsround/vi...
#carspreading #SUV #saferstreets
🙃 The children's news show ran a story on SUVs with Solve the School Run and it's honestly one of the best SUV explainers we've seen!
Catch the full segment here: bbc.co.uk/newsround/vi...
#carspreading #SUV #saferstreets
Big cars: Are they a good or bad thing?
In December Cardiff became the first UK council to introduce higher parking charges for heavier vehicles - but is it fair? Ricky has been looking into the issue.
bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Newsround is consistently over of the BBC’s most considered news outlets:
Imagine Christmas with a cargo bike?
🎄 Easy parking when you pick up the tree
📦 Effortless parcel collection
🎅🏽 Festive costumes fully visible
🧒🏾 Cheery children (forget "Are we there yet?")
📢 Our #StreetsForKids campaign pushes councils to make #cargobikes accessible for all
families.
👉Follow us!
🎄 Easy parking when you pick up the tree
📦 Effortless parcel collection
🎅🏽 Festive costumes fully visible
🧒🏾 Cheery children (forget "Are we there yet?")
📢 Our #StreetsForKids campaign pushes councils to make #cargobikes accessible for all
families.
👉Follow us!
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Imagine Christmas with a cargo bike?
🎄 Easy parking when you pick up the tree
📦 Effortless parcel collection
🎅🏽 Festive costumes fully visible
🧒🏾 Cheery children (forget "Are we there yet?")
📢 Our #StreetsForKids campaign pushes councils to make #cargobikes accessible for all
families.
👉Follow us!
🎄 Easy parking when you pick up the tree
📦 Effortless parcel collection
🎅🏽 Festive costumes fully visible
🧒🏾 Cheery children (forget "Are we there yet?")
📢 Our #StreetsForKids campaign pushes councils to make #cargobikes accessible for all
families.
👉Follow us!
🎄 Merry Christmas from Solve the School Run!
🚴 🚴 Where will you be cycling with your little reindeer over the holidays?
#saferstreets #schoolrun #SafeStreetsForKids #StreetsForKids
🚴 🚴 Where will you be cycling with your little reindeer over the holidays?
#saferstreets #schoolrun #SafeStreetsForKids #StreetsForKids
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🎄 Merry Christmas from Solve the School Run!
🚴 🚴 Where will you be cycling with your little reindeer over the holidays?
#saferstreets #schoolrun #SafeStreetsForKids #StreetsForKids
🚴 🚴 Where will you be cycling with your little reindeer over the holidays?
#saferstreets #schoolrun #SafeStreetsForKids #StreetsForKids
🫵 If you want a safer school run for your kids this Christmas (and every day...) there's one quick thing you can do.
💻 Write to your council and ask them for #SafeStreetsForKids
👉 www.solvetheschoolrun.org/streetsforkids
#saferstreets #schoolrun #carspreading
💻 Write to your council and ask them for #SafeStreetsForKids
👉 www.solvetheschoolrun.org/streetsforkids
#saferstreets #schoolrun #carspreading
December 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
🫵 If you want a safer school run for your kids this Christmas (and every day...) there's one quick thing you can do.
💻 Write to your council and ask them for #SafeStreetsForKids
👉 www.solvetheschoolrun.org/streetsforkids
#saferstreets #schoolrun #carspreading
💻 Write to your council and ask them for #SafeStreetsForKids
👉 www.solvetheschoolrun.org/streetsforkids
#saferstreets #schoolrun #carspreading
Wouldn't your festive run-up be more chilled with a cargo bike?
🎄 Ditch the car, wrap up (Santa hat optional) and feel the benefits!
📢 Our #StreetsForKids campaign is pushing councils to make #cargobikes accessible for all families.
👉 Share + follow us.
#londonparents
🎄 Ditch the car, wrap up (Santa hat optional) and feel the benefits!
📢 Our #StreetsForKids campaign is pushing councils to make #cargobikes accessible for all families.
👉 Share + follow us.
#londonparents
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Wouldn't your festive run-up be more chilled with a cargo bike?
🎄 Ditch the car, wrap up (Santa hat optional) and feel the benefits!
📢 Our #StreetsForKids campaign is pushing councils to make #cargobikes accessible for all families.
👉 Share + follow us.
#londonparents
🎄 Ditch the car, wrap up (Santa hat optional) and feel the benefits!
📢 Our #StreetsForKids campaign is pushing councils to make #cargobikes accessible for all families.
👉 Share + follow us.
#londonparents