A scheme geared at ensuring children enjoy safer travel to school is being launched in a North-East town.
Harlow Green Infant and Junior School, in Gateshead, was selected last year for a Safer Routes to Schools pilot project to encourage more children to walk to school - and encourage parents to let them.
Gateshead Borough Council agreed to set up a series of traffic measures to encourage parents to abandon the car for the school run in favour of walking.
The measures will be launched by Councillor Gordon Spring today.
They include a 20mph limit along roads leading to the schools, the introduction of traffic-calming features, signs and road markings, and a zebra crossing.
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