(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 18 - Friday 21 October 2022 European mobilization "Streets for kids" is back: thousands of children and girls all over Europe will take to the streets with roundabouts and bicycles to ask for more school roads and to launch the petition "No more polluted air around schools ".
93% of children in cities across Europe breathe polluted air and at levels considered critical by the World Health Organization.
The petition therefore seeks to ask European leaders to set ambitious targets for reducing air pollution.
On Friday, in Italy, about ten cities will be involved in the European mobilization day "Streets for Kids", with a hundred or so initiatives proposed, but the
On the site https://cleancitiescampaign.org/streetsforkids/ are available materials, vademecum and contents to organize your mobilization.
The request to the administrations of associations, parents and teachers is more "school roads", that is, the other traffic closure of the roads overlooked by the schools.
In London, for example, school roads were shown to have reduced nitrogen dioxide levels by up to 23% and significantly reduced vehicle traffic throughout the day.
In large European cities, school streets are already a reality: 500 in London, 170 in Paris, 120 in Barcelona.
In Italy only (few) experiments, often left to the voluntary initiative of parents, with poor results in terms of efficacy, especially as regards safety.
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