( Extract from Councillor Deirdre Alden’s Blog 8/05/08)

This morning I was invited to Chad Vale School in Edgbaston to officially launch the new safety measures which have been put outside the school as part of the "Safer Routes To Schools" programme.
Chad Vale now has a pedestrian crossing, speed bumps, yellow lines and zigzags to deter people
parking immediately outside the school entrance, and the immediate area around the school has been made a 20mph zone.

Several years ago, a party of children from the school came to the Edgbaston Ward Committee to make their case for safety measures outside their school. They did this exceedingly well and the    Edgbaston Councillors were more than happy to back their case. It's taken a while (these things invariably do) but at last now the school has the kind of measures the children asked for.

I spoke to the headmaster, chairman of the governors and the lollipop man this morning - and all were delighted with the work that has been done. So too were the children from reception class who helped me cut the ribbon in front of the new crossing this morning.

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