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Travel Survey
See also Main Stories on traffic.

A travel survey will probably confirm your suspicions of how most children get to school. For reasons ranging from security to convenience, the school run chokes our streets and encourages obesity and lack of fitness among our pupil population.

Ask your friends what hazards there are on the journey to school. What alternatives they can suggest? What are their plus points? What are their negatives? Ask them to list the pros and cons of each.

What are your friends' ideas of the disadvantages of motorcars? Are they aware of human health problems like asthma, acid rain and global warming issues, the problems caused by scrap materials including battery acid, used motor oil and antifreeze? Do they know about the huge amount of resources used in manufacturing cars?

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