Safer School Journeys - The Olive 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.

The Olive 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:
  • raising the zebra crossing on Reddings Lane
  • installing a pedestrian refuge island at the junction with Weston Lane
• Bollards and double kerbing to stop parking on pavements and grass verges
• Cycle lane separators on Battery Way to provide greater protection
• Clearer signs and coloured road surfacing, to make drivers aware they are entering an area with a school
• Planters, seating and/or cycle parking to improve the look and feel of the area

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