The active travel path that Killearn Active Travel seeks to develop will provide a safe off-road route for the growing community south of Killearn to access Killearn Primary School and nurseries. The current path is sub-standard, and safety is an issue, so without an improvement to infrastructure, many people have to drive to access schools and nurseries.
The local school is very keen to reduce the amount of traffic outside school where congestion is a big problem and parking is limited. The school supports the development of an active travel path as a means to help achieve this. For many years the primary school has encouraged journeys made by bike or foot which this active travel path will allow the growing community South of Killearn to make.
The active path will encourage and support the families and children to make everyday journeys to the primary school and nurseries by walking, wheeling and cycling, by offering a safe, attractive route, away from a busy roads, that joins the village at a much safer 20mph area.
It will also link the area south of Killearn to the village where another Sustrans active travel path to Balfron is planned and where Balfron High School is located, providing an off-road route also to the high school.
Killearn Active Travel 