SNP members have tabled a motion for the next full council meeting calling for the establishment of a working group to give “flexible” consideration to pedestrian journeys to school and to develop new updated safety assessment criteria.
North Lanarkshire ’s opposition group is bidding to update and reassess safe walking routes for school pupils as changes to distance eligibility begin next week.
They also suggest that secondary routes should be reassessed against any new criteria developed by the group of both elected members and council staff, noting that the last review took place six years ago and with concerns having been raised about the safety of routes deemed safe in the latest round of assessments.
Councillor Carragher added: “We have consistently opposed these massively detrimental cuts to school transport, with every attempt to overturn this decision being blocked by the Labour administration despite being fully costed. He wrote in June to deputy first minister Kate Forbes noting families’ “understandable concerns” about safety and asking for an overall review of both the nationally-defined route assessment and distance criteria “given increasing traffic levels, rising levels of poverty and the environmental consequences of more vehicles being on the road”, and for the Scottish Government to fund the continued enhanced provision.
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