On Friday we did a walkability audit on some routes to school in the area with Kathryn from An Taisce. We turned left outside the school and walked up towards Melrose. W
e turned right at
Melrose Green and walked towards Lindisfarne Park. Then we walked along the path by the main road and turned right into Lindisfarne Drive and back to school.
Ten children from the Green Team came. Lauren was given the job of recording the good and bad things we saw on our walk and Karina recorded where we saw them on a map of the area.Then everybody took it in turns to take pictures of the things we saw.
Most of the things we saw were good – the lines at the gate where the cars cannot park so that our children can come in to school safely – the barrier outside the gate, our good footpaths, lovely trees and green spaces and we even heard the birds singing which makes it a very pleasant journey when walking to school.
We saw a few bad things like the litter and some graffiti and a boy very dangerously riding a motor bike on the footpath.
But our conclusion was that the route we took is a very good and safe walk to school and there is no reason that all the children from these areas shouldn’t walk to school every day and leave the cars at home
