Walking buses a classroom on foot

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 13/06/2007 - 22:23
NZ Herald feature 8/6/07 - Web page - HTML - Browser
Walking school buses are being hailed by urban planners as a way of giving city streets back to children. Speakers at a United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) seminar in Waitakere yesterday said children who were driven to school by their parents failed to develop a sense of belonging to their neighbourhood or the independence that came from walking to school.
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Simon Collins
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NZ Herald
Date Published:
8/6/07
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