Some 70 percent of schoolchildren don't walk to school
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 13:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Days when schoolchildren walked to neighbourhood schools are long gone. A new study by a team of researchers led by Paul Lewis, a professor of Urban Planning at the Université de Montréal, shows that only 30 percent of children attending elementary school reach school on foot or by bicycle.
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