School Streets

School Streets is an initiative in the United Kingdom to implement School Streets outside schools. A school street is a road outside a school with a part-time restriction on motor traffic outside schools during drop-off and pick-up times. The programme is supported by Sustrans, a sustainable transport non-profit in the UK.
One of the first schools to trial the scheme was Gayhurst Community School in Hackney in 2018. As of November 2020, Transport for London has funded 430 new school streets. Legislatively, the scheme is achieved by restricting access to motor vehicles at certain times.
Nearly two-thirds of UK teachers are in favour of roads around schools being closed. A study has shown that School Streets reduce Nitrogen Dioxide levels by up to 23 per cent during morning drop-off.
The scheme aims to:
History.
In March 2018, some parents in Belgium closed the road outside their school instead of going for coffee. They called the movement . Over the next two weeks, 42 more schools joined as well.
Criticism.
One limitation of the scheme is that the time restrictions during drop-off and pick-up only do not help to reduce pollution during other times when children are outside.
In 2021, some residents in Ilford, Greater London, opposed the introduction of 10 new School Streets in their borough, Redbridge. They said that the traffic would just move to another area. Instead they favoured introducing a no stopping zone, which would allow through-traffic to continue.