Want to start using a cargo bike - but have questions? 🤔 Like... 1️⃣ Are they easy to ride? 2️⃣ What about storage? 3️⃣ How much do they cost? 4️⃣ Should I buy secondhand? 5️⃣ Where can I try one out? 💡 Follow us for tips and advice! #schoolrun #cargobikes #ParentingHacks

🎄🎄🎄 A very merry Christmas to you all, love Solve the School Run x

Funny how the usual "think about the kids" gang is completely silent about these monsters on our roads..

Lets just ban SUVs. Nobody needs one. They’re just a car manufacturers wet dream.

443 children are injured on the school run in London every year. That's equivalent to an entire primary school of children 😱, and 16% of these injuries are serious. London’s children deserve safer streets. We need #StreetsForKids. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/... @solveschoolrun.bsky.social

Really great to see this on BBC Newsround 👏 Brilliant to see children’s media tackling road safety and car dominance in such an accessible way. Well done @solveschoolrun.bsky.social

Newsround is consistently over of the BBC’s most considered news outlets:

Imagine Christmas with a cargo bike? 🎄 Easy parking when you pick up the tree 📦 Effortless parcel collection 🎅🏽 Festive costumes fully visible 🧒🏾 Cheery children (forget "Are we there yet?") 📢 Our #StreetsForKids campaign pushes councils to make #cargobikes accessible for all families. 👉Follow us!

🎄 Merry Christmas from Solve the School Run! 🚴 🚴 Where will you be cycling with your little reindeer over the holidays? #saferstreets #schoolrun #SafeStreetsForKids #StreetsForKids

🫵 If you want a safer school run for your kids this Christmas (and every day...) there's one quick thing you can do. 💻 Write to your council and ask them for #SafeStreetsForKids 👉 www.solvetheschoolrun.org/streetsforkids #saferstreets #schoolrun #carspreading

Wouldn't your festive run-up be more chilled with a cargo bike? 🎄 Ditch the car, wrap up (Santa hat optional) and feel the benefits! 📢 Our #StreetsForKids campaign is pushing councils to make #cargobikes accessible for all families. 👉 Share + follow us. #londonparents

📢 Our co-founder Claire McDonald was on @BBCLondon ! 🚗 Claire chatted to @1aaronpaul about #carspreading - highlighting that #SUVs now make up 30% of cars on our roads - and why this is a problem. 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (6:25 mins in) #saferstreets

📣 We were on BBC's Newsround this week! 🙃 The children's news show ran a story on #carspreading with Solve the School Run and it's honestly one of the best SUV explainers we've seen! Catch the full segment here: bbc.co.uk/newsround/vi... #carspreading #SUV #saferstreets

📣 We were on BBC's Newsround this week! 🙃 The children's news show ran a story on SUVs with Solve the School Run and it's honestly one of the best SUV explainers we've seen! Catch the full segment here: bbc.co.uk/newsround/vi... #carspreading #SUV #saferstreets

🚸 In many countries families routinely commute on a cargo bike. Here? Cost, storage + safety can be barriers. 😀 And yet cargos are a no-brainer for happier travel! As such, we're pushing councils to prioritise access to one for every family. 👉 Follow us for updates + share!

🔗 More on our campaign page 👉 www.solvetheschoolrun.org/streetsforkids #streetsforkids #saferstreets #schoolrun

Onwards and downwards to the future, fellow Londoners! 🚀

Many in our Cargo Collective networks invested in cargo bikes for local family travel because they knew they could rely on using zip cars when they needed to for longer trips. We really hope this closure doesn’t go ahead. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🚸 How do you create safe #streetsforkids? We have a three-point manifesto! Our first ask? An effective school street for every school. ❓How does this look? 👉 Substantial and enforced! 👋 Follow us for more on our work creating safer streets for kids! #SaferSchoolRuns

❓ Did you guess C? If so, you are absolutely right. 🫵 What do you find stressful about your school run - and what would improve it? #schoolrun #SolveTheSchoolRun #SaferRoadsForAll #kids Source: @morethan

This is what happens when you create safe #streetsforkids 👇 🎉Celebrating one year of our ambitious and transformative school street. 💚Happy, safe journeys to school for all these kids. Our first Streets for Kids manifesto ask? 👉An effective school street for every school.

Even in London where councils have all the powers they need to eliminate pavement parking (and have done since 1978), many councils actively enable pavement driving - this is our walk to school #wandsworth @solveschoolrun.bsky.social @livingstreets.bsky.social @wandsworthls.bsky.social

Glad to see our research in the Daily Mail in a really thoughtful and well researched piece from Elizabeth Haigh. This is the untold story of millions of children making their way to school in levels of unacceptable danger. We need #streetsforkids www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

480,000 London car trips per day are down to the school run 😮 👉 Follow us and support our campaign to make your school run cleaner, greener, safer – and way more fun than sitting in a traffic jam! #SolveTheSchoolRun #SaferRoadsForAll #parentinghacks

This isn't Amsterdam. (Honest!) We successfully campaign for more cycle lanes, school streets, zebra crossings, 20mph speed limits and parking controls, all of which can make school zones safer places to walk, ride or scoot 👉 Want to know more? bit.ly/3X4M5M9 #solvetheschoolrun #primaryschool

Our latest research with @cleancitiescampaign.org released this week shows: 🚨443 children are injured on the London school run each year - an entire primary school of children 🚑16% of these are serious injuries We need change. We need #streetsforkids. www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/mum-sha...

❓Want to start using a cargo bike to rev up your school run? Just imagine you and your kids zipping up quiet back streets, skipping traffic jams and no more, "Are we there yet?" Bliss! 👉 Our newsletter has bags of intel and advice! bit.ly/3X4M5M9 #SolveTheSchoolRun #cargobikes #parentinghacks

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Today is International Children’s Rights Day 🌍👧👦 and we are excited to announce the launch of our new #StreetsforKids London election campaign - a collaboration with @cleancitiescampaign.org Europe-wide Streets for Kids movement.

Join us over on Instagram! We'd wheely love to see you there 🚲 🚲 🚲 At Solve the School Run our mission is to create safe, clean, green and easier ways for parents to to get their kids to school. 👉 bit.ly/49rbsyV #solvetheschoolrun #roadsafety #londonparents

Want to feel safer cycling your children to school❓ We can help! 🤸🏿 🚸 We're campaigning for sustainable travel and to make it easier for parents to to get their kids to school. 💡 Sign up to our newsletter for updates 👉 bit.ly/3X4M5M9 #solvetheschoolrun

Want a better solution for your children's journey to school? Sign up for our newsletter 👉 bit.ly/3X4M5M9 #solvetheschoolrun #roadsafety #londonparents

With the world heating up [and more pedestrians being killed], why are more SUVs being sold? “It’s the industry that has driven the demand through huge marketing & advertising campaigns in recent years. SUVs offered the industry a simple way of charging more for a vehicle that does the same thing.”

😮 A sobering statistic for Road Safety Week... In the UK, SUVs are three times more likely to kill a child under the age of 10 and heavier cars are more likely to be involved in fatal collisions. Source: @cleancitiescampaign #roadsafetyweek #roadsafetyweek25 #carspreading #suvs #schoolrun

❓Which boroughs have the highest school-run driving rates? 🚗 In London 65% of primary school journeys over 1 mile in length are driven. 👉Find out in our first-of-its-kind data dashboard bit.ly/3JdNXii #solvetheschoolrun #roadsafety

It was great to see @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social , Deputy Leader of Lambeth Council and @willnorman.co.uk, London’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner today on an epic bike bus organised by @solverosendale.bsky.social. It was to celebrate one year of their amazing and transformational school street!

Great to join mums, dads, kids and teachers today scooting and cycling to school on the Solve The School Run bike bus and to celebrate Rosendale Road School Street’s 1st birthday. Thanks to @willnorman.co.uk for joining us this wet and soggy but joyous morning! @solveschoolrun.bsky.social

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🫵🏻 Want your children’s school to have School Street designation? 🚸 It creates priority for families cycling or walking by closing the road during drop-off and pick-up. 🚦All children should feel going to and from school! 👉 More info bit.ly/47dyTJu #SchoolRun

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Based on current fatality rates, 106 people will be killed in crashes on Birmingham’s roads during the 2026 to 2030 council term. We are partnering as an unprecedented coalition of 16 national and local organisations to ask the politicians of tomorrow: Will you make Birmingham’s roads safer?

😮 In London 65% of primary school journeys over 1 mile in length are driven. ❓How many children are travelling over 1 mile to your school? 👉 Find out in our first-of-its-kind data dashboard: bit.ly/3JdNXii #solvetheschoolrun

Want to start using a cargo bike to improve your school run, but don’t know where to start? We have all the experience, information, tips and support you need! 👉 bit.ly/47dyTJu #SolveTheSchoolRun #cargobikes #schoolrun #parentinghacks

Half term is so visibly over, right? 🚸 And it has a HUGE knock-on effect on traffic. 🚗 In some areas the school run has been reported to increase pollution and bus times by a staggering 50% compared to school holidays! How were your local roads last week? #londonparents

Hey... we're now Solving the School Run on Facebook, too! 👋 Please do drop by to say hi! 👉 bit.ly/49rbsyV #solvetheschoolrun #parentinghacks #roadsafety #londonparents

We've got a shiny new Facebook page - come and join us! bit.ly/49rbsyV #solvetheschoolrun

“The way to reduce school transport costs in the long term, is to first invest in walking and cycling infrastructure that is safe enough for children to travel on independently, as they do in many European countries.” ☝️Our quote in Schoolsweek schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-counc...

Spooky quiet in Oxford during “rush hour” when it's school holidays

Noticed quieter roads this week? 🚸 If it's half term in your area, chances are you have. 🚗 In some areas the school run has been reported to increase pollution and bus times by an enormous 50% compared to school holidays! ❓What's it like where you live this week? #schoolrun

💡 Want to start using a cargo bike to improve your school run, but don’t know where to start? 👉 We have all the experience, information, tips and support you need! 🔗 Solve the School Run bit.ly/3WfdrPm #cargobikes #schoolrun #parentinghacks