Ensuring children and their families have safe pedestrian access to and from schools is a top priority for Wollongong City Council. Safe active travel to school has many benefits, including promoting active lifestyles, fostering community connection, while helping our environment and reducing congestion on our roads.
Through our Safer Routes to School (SRTS) program, Council's transport team have and will continue to work with the more than 80 local schools in our Local Government Area to identify their specific needs and ways safety can be improved. This includes potential upgrades to existing infrastructure, identifying where new infrastructure may be required such as paths or crossings, and measures like new or additional signage, and links between schools and public transport. The SRTS working group recently finalised reports for four schools, while a further five draft reports are with schools for comment and 22 investigations are currently underway.
