Some 70 Percent Of Schoolchildren Don’t Walk To School, Canada

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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Filed under: Pediatrics on December 4th, 2008