16-07-2025
Cartoon 'buddies' tackling Cornwall school parking issues
A scheme in Cornwall is aiming to tackle congestion and safety issues during the school coloured cartoon "Parking Buddies" signs have been placed outside primary schools in the county to stop motorists pulling up and stopping at the Council said the signs had been loaned out to schools for either a term or until the end of the academic year as part of a trial in a bid to encourage "behavioural change" from Williams, head teacher at Trenance Learning Academy, in Newquay - which is one of the schools piloting the project - said the signs had worked well for them.
Mr Williams said mornings were usually very busy outside the school but the buddies had made it "a much safer place".He added: "More pedestrians are using the crossing because they can see where traffic is coming from."Parents enjoy them, the children enjoy them and I enjoy them."
Along with Trenance, the signs are currently outside Sandy Hill Academy in St Austell and Stithians Community Primary council said the signs had also been used previously at Lostwithiel School and St Mewan Rogerson, the council's cabinet member for transport, said the project had been able to reach multiple schools across the Lib Dem councillor said: "The cost implication is quite low and the lasting benefit that we have seen is that it really does effect driving behaviour."
