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Clearly schools contribute massively to the problem but it is actually amazing that the Guardian editor/legal team let this story go to print and finger Dulwich College specifically in the way they have. Also, which private schools do those 6,000 pupils go to in Herne Hill exactly...I think the journalist might be a bit confused where the schools are....

 Dulwich College and the rest of the private schools are never going to get serious about reducing the number of kids commuting by private car. It goes against their business model - marketing to rich, picky parents across the whole of London (and the world).

Community schools that draw from a local catchment area will find it much easier to have kids that walk, bike, scooter etc in.

By the way, these private schools also employ hundreds of staff and provide onsite parking for many of them - an unusual perk in London. JAGS lost a lot of goodwill from neighbours and parents when they opposed the school street having effect when kids were arriving...because it would interfere with staff pulling into the car park right before the school day!

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Is Solve The School Run being used as a political lobbying tool? Trying to pin the congestion on Croxted Road on private schools seems to be a stretch to say the least and we need to remember that the very same Croxted Road was the subject of a most unholy argument between TFL (who said that Croxted Road congestion was caused by the Dulwich LTNs) and Southwark Councillors (who angrily said it wasn’t - they made TFL staff cry and Will Norman had to jump in to keep the peace).  Now Solve The School Run state, on their website, that they are supported by Southwark Council - coincidence or cosy?

Why are you defending people driving their kids to school?  Why do you jump on every pro driver argument?  It's not a debate when you  immediately take the opposite view.  The fact is when the private schools break up the week before state schools the South Circular is much quieter. 

I am not. I am just wondering why an "independent" local campaign group, which seems to get funding/support from Southwark Council, has decided that increases in traffic congestion and pollution on Croxted Road is down to private schools in Dulwich....when we know that TFL said the increases were down to the LTNs - myabe the two are interlinked but no mention of that from the campaign group.....

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