Aberdeen City Council has introduced the 'pupil trail' to comply with the Scottish Executive's recently-introduced Child Road Accident Reduction Targets, which aim to reduce accidents by 50 per cent by 2010. Four routes now lead from peripheral streets to the school entrances. Coloured squares or circles have been laid on the surface of the footpaths, with the start of each route identified by either a coloured square or a circle mounted on a post.
As well as creating a safer environment for children to walk to school, the routes mean that children travelling by car can be dropped off at the starting point of one of the paths and collected at the same place, reducing traffic congestion around the school itself.
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