In article , Paul Terry
writes
The actual number of car journeys that consist only of the "school
run" are not that large compared with the other work-related journeys.
However, the belief is that the combination of this small extra
number, combines with the fact that people who both drop off their
child and going to work will be more spread out in the holidays
(having more choice of arrival time) - the result is to push the road
over the threshold between "within capacity" and "overloaded".

It is not just pupils who arrive at school by car. Most of the
country's half a million school teachers go to and from school by car;
[...]

Sorry, I'm talking about this specific road with these specific schools
which, apart from anything else, have different holidays to the local
state schools.

The size of that school run is known from council surveys, and a
relatively small drop makes a *big* difference to traffic flow.

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