Marlborough Walking and Cycling Strategy C.2. School Walking and Cycling Data School travel data for nine of the 28 schools in Blenheim have been collected for 2005, 2008 and 2009 and their combined mode shares are presented in Figure 6. (Many other schools have had data collected for one or two of these years but only data from schools with all three years have been analysed for statistical robustness). The sample sizes for 2005, 2008 and 2009 are 677, 714 and 513 respectively. The proportion of students who walk to school has remained relatively constant over the analysis period. The fluctuations in cycling are somewhat balanced by the fluctuations in bus use. Overall there seems to have been a slight decrease in the number of students who cycle to school. Note that many schools include in their School Road Safety Policy a safe cycling policy that children under 10 years old do not cycle to school unless accompanied by an adult, in line with national safety recommendations. This is likely to affect the mode split for cycling, not just for children under 10 years old but also older children who by the time they reach 10 years old have formed travel habits. . Figure 6: Percentage of students travelling to school by cycling, walking or taking the bus ix