Safer School Journeys - Colebourne Primary School

Overview

The Safer School Journeys programme is a city-wide initiative designed to make streets around schools safer, healthier and more welcoming for pupils, families and the wider community.

Funded through the Clean Air Zone and aligned with the city’s Road Harm Reduction Strategy, this programme offers dedicated support to help schools identify and address road safety concerns, improve air quality, and encourage more walking, wheeling, and cycling. It also supports the vision for Kids Streets across the West Midlands.

Colebourne Primary School has been selected for improvements as part of this programme.

We are proposing to introduce:

• Safer and easier places for people to cross by:
• • narrowing junctions at Southbourne Avenue and Westbourne Avenue, including raised table crossings to slow vehicles
  • installing a pedestrian refuge island at the junction with Beaufort Avenue
• Speed cushions along Stechford Road to reduce vehicle speeds
• Bollards and double kerbing to stop parking on pavements
• No waiting restrictions (double yellow lines) at junctions to improve access and safety
• Extended School Keep Clear markings outside the school entrance to improve visibility
• Clearer signs and coloured road surfacing, to make drivers aware they are entering an area with a school
• Tree planting to improve the look and feel of the area

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