walking bus การใช้

• The walking bus depends on a walkable and safe built environment.
• Proponents of walking buses say that its aims are to:
• The communities that support walking buses may see reduced congestion around school grounds.
• The walking bus is a non-polluting and sustainable transport alternative to cars and buses.
• In some countries, parents and / or children on walking buses are encouraged to wear brightly coloured jackets or waistcoats.
• Walking Buses have remained popular in the United Kingdom and have recently gained a level of popularity elsewhere in Europe, North America and New Zealand.
• This has led to criticism that the walking bus is too regimented, and fails to achieve its original purpose of improving children's independent mobility.
• The first walking bus in the United Kingdom was introduced in 1998 by Hertfordshire County Council and used by students of Wheatfields Junior School in St Albans in 1998
• In Auckland, New Zealand, as at November 2007, one hundred schools were running 230 walking buses with over 4, 000 children and 1, 500 adults participating.
• In regards to the safety of the walking bus; the section about Safe Routes to School below goes into more detail about improvements being made to increase the safety for commuting pedestrians.
• Baker is active in a number of local environmentalist programs such as the Saltdean " walking bus ", which accompanies a line of children to school, reducing the number of cars on the road and giving the children " a good bit of exercise " before school.
• David Engwicht, whose 1992 book " Reclaiming our Cities and Towns " is credited by some as the origin of the Walking School Bus concept, has since stated that " The moment the Walking Bus turns into an official program, it creates some significant difficulties, particularly in litigious and risk-adverse cultures ."