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1. Although walking to
school is declining, 53 per cent of children still walked to school
in 1995.
2. Primary-aged children travelled an average of 3,800 miles a year
in 1994-96; 80 per cent of this was by car.
3. Nearly 200,000 tonnes of CO2 are emitted each year by cars
carrying 11-15 year-olds to school.
4. The number of 7-8 year-olds travelling to school without adult
supervision has fallen from 80 per cent to less than 10 per cent in
the last twenty years.
5. A survey of children and teenagers found less that one in twenty
took the minimum regular exercise necessary to maintain basic
fitness.
6. As many as one car in five on the roads during peak periods are
being used to drive a child to school.
7. One in three households have no car but one in five households
have two cars.
8. Girls and women cycle much less than men and boys. Young men
aged between 11 and 17 cycle the most - on average 125 miles per
year.
9. The majority of 9-15 year olds would like to cycle to school if
they could.
10. The average trip length for the junior school journey is 1.2
miles (less than a ten minute bike ride).
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