{"id":251793,"date":"2025-10-31T07:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251793\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:07:08","slug":"audit-shows-more-children-cycle-or-walk-to-school-in-guernsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251793\/","title":{"rendered":"Audit shows more children cycle or walk to school in Guernsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">More children are walking and cycling to school in Guernsey, according to the Health Improvement Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Its Active Travel Audit, introduced in 2020, measures how many people travel by walking, cycling, scooting and blended travel &#8211; using a motorised vehicle and an active travel mode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This October, 58% of respondents used active travel to and from primary schools compared to 48% in October 2024, and 43% of respondents used active travel to and from secondary schools compared to 37% last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">All schools asked children in each class how they travelled to and from school over two consecutive days. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The survey has been conducted twice a year in May and October since 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Health Improvement Commission said cycling had become more popular among both groups, and for secondary students, motorcycle use had also fallen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It said this month&#8217;s most recent audit showed motorcycle use had dropped to 2% from 9% in May 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Amy Woollaston, active travel officer at the Health Improvement Commission, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s incredibly exciting to see active travel to and from Guernsey schools gaining real momentum. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;October 2025 marked a milestone, recording the highest combined levels of active travel across both primary and secondary schools since data collection began.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More children are walking and cycling to school in Guernsey, according to the Health Improvement Commission. Its Active&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-251793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}