Its main goal is to improve children’s safety on their way to school. Participants in the project are two Wroclaw schools:
- Primary School no. 34 at ul. Gałczyńskiego
- Complex of Schools no. 9 at ul. Krajewskiego.
This project is directly inspired by the Schulstraße initiative being implemented in Vienna, although similar actions are also known in many other European cities. The School Street project will be the first action of this kind in Poland.
What will it exactly look like?
In October, half an hour before the first lesson, we will make available a fragment of the street adjacent to the children’s school so that children could freely cover the last section on foot, by bike or by scooter in the car-free environment. In this way, we want to create a space that will be an extension of the schoolyard – a place of pre-lesson meetings and conversations in which children will feel free and safe.
In the vicinity of schools, ‘no entry’ signs and scissor barriers will be installed to mark street sections available only for pedestrian traffic, bicycles or scooters. Along with the first bell, barriers will be removed, and other vehicular traffic will be resumed. The City Guard will supervise altered traffic organisation.
Questionnaire
An additional element of the project is the research part, which consists in carrying out anonymous surveys before the start of the pilot project and at the end of its duration.
