Solve the School Run Rosendale

We always knew this local election campaign was going to be epic! Here's the story - in numbers - of our #StreetsForKids campaign with @cleancitiescampaign We had THREE asks for councils: 🚸 More effective School Streets 🚲 More funding and storage for cargo bikes 🛑 Fewer cars parked on the kerbside so children can cross roads safely Why? Our streets are not safe or healthy for kids! We kicked off our campaign with new research that shows 443 children are injured on their way to or from school every day. ➽ We worked with four London boroughs: Hackney, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, to sign up to our manifesto and met SEVEN cabinet-level candidates and many more councillors, explaining why these asks are so important. ➽ Our incredible parent network mobilised, with hundreds of families joining their local WhatsApp group to support change and sending 361 emails to local candidates, securing 59 pledge signatories. And SEVEN local parties included our asks in their own manifestos. ➽ We also held SEVEN events, bringing together HUNDREDS of families alongside councillor candidates, showing the huge demand for safer streets around schools. ➽ TWO rallies featuring DOZENS of tiny (and very cute) zebras, highlighting the dangers children face near their schools. ➽ TWO joyful bike buses, demonstrating the appetite for safe cycling routes to school — including ONE led by the amazing @coachbalto ➽ THREE “Show & Tells”, where families walked councillor candidates through the danger hotspots their children navigate every day. ⭐ To top it off, we launched research showing that a London family using a cargo bike could save £4,000 a year compared to owning a second-hand car. 💪 Almost all the cabinet level candidates we engaged now have significant roles in office. And they go into that office having pledged to deliver on our manifesto. We look forward to holding them to that. 📣 This campaign showed the enormous appetite for #StreetsForKids across London. Parents, children and communities are crying out for safer, healthier streets, and when people are given the chance to speak up, they do. Loudly.

We had an amazing bike bus with @coachbalto of @bikebusworld last month! 🚲 Bike Bus World was co-founded by Coach aka Sam Balto, a former PE teacher from Portland, Oregon in the US who is now a stone cold active-kids legend. Since his first ever bike bus, just over four years ago in April 2022, Sam's helped to bring the joyous bike bus concept to school runs all over the globe and turned it into an amazing movement. 🚲 + 🚌 What is a bike bus? It's like a school bus, but on bikes! And with a lot more kids. The bus picks up pupils - and their parents - along the route on a ride to school that's safe (because you can't miss a bike bus) and powered by positivity, camaraderie and banging tunes. 🩷 Sam was passing through London from the States for two days only but managed to squeeze in joining us for the our bike bus to Rosendale Primary School, where there's an incredible community of families who love cycling and walking to school. We felt very lucky to have him for the morning! 🌟 Rosendale is our local primary in Lambeth, and where Solve the School Run started, which made the event even more special. ❓So how was it? We think the video speaks for itself. (It was BRILLIANT!) @solverosendale @coachbalto @safer_alleynpark @betterstreetswestdulwich @lovewestdulwich @ibikelondon @cleanairdulwich @joinourcargocollective @greenschoolruns @safe_air_schools_uk @bikeportland @jonathan.maus @kiddicalmass_london @cleancitiescampaign @bikebuscamden @mumsforlungs @hernehillforum @londoncityranger @peddlemywheels @ourbikeuk @londonbikebus @thisisdulwichvillage @charlotte_critical_mass @dulwichwoodprimary @dulwichhamletjs dulwich_village_infants @stjudeslambeth @hernehillschool @hernehillsociety #bikebus #bikebusworld #rosendaleprimary #streetsforkids #westdulwichmums

Sad news all🥹 👉The extension of the bike lane and 5 zebra crossings planned to go down to the Rosendale pub are now at risk because of a legal challenge from West Dulwich Action Group (WDAG). 👉WDAG suggest the design of the cycle lane extension to the Rosendale pub isn’t safe because it crosses “cross-over junctions”, which are driveways. 👉But cycling across driveways where cars are mainly stationary is much safer for kids than cycling in fast-moving traffic on the road. 😡There are so many frustrated local families in our community who have come out over the last 5 years for bike buses and zebra rallies and who are tired of waiting to have safer journeys to school. 🗣️Time to speak to for your bike lane! Check out our blog on why this legal challenge is so unhelpful for local children > link in our bio. #safestreets #streetsforkids #londonparents #schoolrun #dulwich @betterstreetswestdulwich @westdulwichlabour @green_tompalmer @cleanairdulwich @lambethlabour @lambethgreenparty @solvelambeth @solvesouthwark @solveschoolrun

Thank you @lambethgreenparty for championing child safety and committing to our Streets For Kids campaign manifesto asks. Lambeth Greens say: 🚸 We will introduce school streets around every Lambeth school, with appropriate bollards and cameras, and ensure that all schools have a transport strategy for drop off and pick up. 🚲 Reduce existing barriers to family cargo bike use through providing secure kerbside storage for these bikes and expanding appropriate subsidies. 🦓 Work towards a child-friendly kerbside, prioritising play, green space, and safe crossings. @solvelambeth @solverosendale @paulvalentine87 @alangreenlambeth @louiseairaware @scott.ainslie.73 @cleancitiescampaign @solvehackney @solvesouthwark @solveschoolrunlewisham #LocalElections2026 #RoadSafety #StreetsForKids #LondonParents

Tired of the stress and strain of trying to keep your children safe every day on this simple journey? 💫 Wish it was safe enough for them to make this short trip on their own? 🦓 🚲 This week we’ve been out demanding bike lanes and zebras in south London - as a parent-led charity working to turn the school run into a healthier, more sustainable and safe journey for everyone, this is what we do! 🚸 But we shouldn’t have to - and nor should our children! Agree? 👉 Join us and read more about our campaign in the link in our bio. #londonparents #streetsforkids #solvetheschoolrun #saferstreets #londonschoolrun

What does it look like when over a hundred people turn out before school to support your bike lane?! #streetsforkids

🐥 We hope you're having a wheely great bank holiday weekend - and burning off all that excess Easter chocolate energy! 🐰 We'll be back in a week. 🌸 Love from all of us at @solvetheschoolrun

75% of families travel sustainably to school but we all know the increased traffic, congestion and air pollution caused by driven school run journeys. 💨 That's why we want families to have better choices of how to travel actively to school. That involves many different initiatives, but right up there, is the provision of safe routes. 👣🚲🛴 The Rosendale Healthy Route is vital for so many families travelling to multiple schools in the area. We can't wait to see it extended! 🚸 #schoolrun #streetsforkids #schoolstreets

We love our school street! Now let's extend it so everyone can benefit. #rosendale #schoolstreets #streetsforkids

Are they starting? .... I think they are starting??!! 🤩🤩🤩BUILD BABY BUILD 🤩🤩🤩 #Rosendalehealthyroute

🚲 Do you agree? 📝 Use our quick and easy tool to write to you your local council candidates now! Ahead of the May local elections.... Link in bio or go to: 👉.uk/schoolrun #streetsforkids #activetravel #greenfamily #roadsafety #londonparents

A bike lane for Rosendale Road was first discussed in 2012.😍 Generations of Rosendale families and this community have fought for its introduction 😍 When the first section was built, it was so popular it was recorded in the top 15% most used bike lanes in London 😍 Imagine - so much use, it was competing with those cycle super highways in central London 😍 The second section is used at all times of the day - but particularly on the school run - providing a safe route for different schools in the area.😍 And finally ..... March 2026 ..... It's being extended South of the south Circular 😍 To connect more schools, more local businesses, more public transport links and enable cycling for minority groups who see road danger as the barrier. 😍 It's here - it's happening - and what a joyous moment for this community 😍 #bikelane #Schoolrun #streetsforkids