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From: Carolyn O'Fallon [mailto:pinnacle.research@...]
Sent: Tuesday, 3 October 2000 7:17 PM
To: childs-play@...
Subject: Walk to School Project

I am an independent researcher / policy advisor working in conjunction with
another researcher working in New Zealand. We would like to contribute to
your "First Project" on walking to school.

We have been working with a local authority in Christchurch New Zealand (the
Christchurch City Council) to establish walking school bus networks at 4
schools. The "networks" (in one case, there are now 9 buses operating in one
school) were launched on 1 September. We did a preliminary survey to gauge
interest in the walking school bus idea, established the possible routes,
and will be doing a follow up survey in late November to find out about any
hiccoughs in the implementation etc of the WSBs. We plan to develop
guidelines for use by local authorities and schools to networking their
schools for walking. Our research will assess not only the potential for
WSBs (in terms of getting children on their feet) but also will measure the
impact on the environment, parent's time & stress and hopefully children's
health. We will also identify specific concerns parents have about letting
their children walk.

I am not sure what else you would like to know at this point, all my contact
details are below.

Sincerely,

Carolyn

Dr Carolyn O'Fallon
Pinnacle Research
29 Voltaire Street
Karori
Wellington NEW ZEALAND

phone: 025-2404196
fax: 64-4-4762574
email: pinnacle.research@...