A group of Eastbury Secondary School students were invited to share a platform with Rt. Hon. Michael Meacher MP, the Minister for the Environment, along with members from the Greater London Authority.
They were invited to the 'Say it Loud' Environmental Conference on Thursday 28 November 2002.
The event, which took place at the Royal Geographical Society and Science Museum, was open to over 300 young people and teachers from all over London, and organised by Government Office for London and Environmental Coordinators from all local authorities.
It aimed to promote the awareness of the links between local environmental and global development issues, as well as showing other London schools the good work that that were doing to improve their environment.
The students were invited to show other London authorities the work that they have been doing, making our environment greener and safer.
It came hot on the heels of the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in August, which pupils were able to use a springboard for discussion about the global impact of environmental education projects in schools.
The 10 Year 10 pupils from the Rosslyn Road School have been working with our Youth Support and Development Team and Environmental Sustainability Officer, to prepare their presentation for the conference, which highlights traffic and road safety issues.
Their detailed research involved looking at why and how accidents occur, accident hot spots, contributory factors and possible solutions or measures which could reduce the number of accidents.
Eastbury pupil Christopher Lane said:
"We carried out quite a lot of research in order to put together our presentation. We undertook car counting exercises to see which roads are used the most, we also looked at the accident hot spots and tried to see if there was a link between the amount of traffic and the number of accidents. However we found this was unrelated."
Fellow pupil Jonathan Truong added:
"When we found there was no link here we then moved on to look at what other factors could have contributed to accidents in these areas."
"We thought possible factors could be poor sight lines, confusion about road layout, especially where roads were one-way."
Among the students proposals to improve road safety were to look at the cleanliness, safety and number of underpasses along the A13 to encourage people to use them, especially young people, instead of them having to battle with the traffic.
The students also wanted to increase the number of bike sheds in schools so as to encourage students to cycle to school.
They also wanted to see an increase in the number if cycle lanes and to make sure that were not parked in, to encourage cycling to work and school in a safe manner.
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