The question on what is preventing children from walking, cycling or using public transport to get to school is being posed but transport chiefs.
A new School Travel Strategy is being drawn up and people are invited to have their sayw.
The aim is to increase the number of primary, secondary, and further education students using sustainable travel methods by 2030.
It is designed to address the obstacles preventing young people from walking, wheeling, cycling, or using public transport.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), and the 10 local authorities are working on the strategy.
The consultation comes just weeks after The Bolton News highlighted the issues facing Turton School pupils being able to catch a bus.
Turton School on Bromley Cross Road has long struggled with issues with the 926 “scholars route” bus service, a single decker bus with a capacity of just 70.
This is despite around 130 to 140 children needing to use the bus, which usually fills up after just one stop, which the school has repeatedly raised with Transport for Greater Manchester.
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Every day, around 460,000 pupils travel to more than 1,200 schools and further education establishments across Greater Manchester.
Around 15 per cent of all trips in Greater Manchester are for educational purposes, and almost half of the trips during peak periods are education-related.
The School Travel Strategy aims to encourage more children and young people to travel to their educational institutions in an 'active and sustainable' way, including via public transport modes such as bus or tram.
A 10-week public consultation on the School Travel Strategy has now been launched and is open to everyone who lives or travels in Greater Manchester.
Children, young people, and their parents and guardians are encouraged to share their views, as their experiences and ideas are essential in shaping a transport system that meets their needs now and in the future.
The consultation will close on January 26, 2025.
All feedback received will help shape the final School Travel Strategy, which will be shared along with the outcomes of the consultation in the Spring of next year.
Active Travel Commissioner, Dame Sarah Storey, said: "Enabling journeys to places of education to be made using the Bee Network is a priority for myself and our Transport Commissioner, Vernon Everitt.
"Over the past two years, we have been jointly working with TfGM to develop a School Travel Strategy and this consultation is to better understand where the Bee Network is getting things right and where improvements can be made."
In the draft strategy, Greater Manchester is aiming for 70 per cent of primary school students to walk, wheel, scoot or cycle to school by 2030, up from 63 per cent right now.
The goal for secondary schools is for 80 per cent of pupils to walk, wheel, cycle, or use public transport to travel to school, up from 74 per cent.
The target for young people attending college or further education is also 80 per cent, up from 66 per cent.
Targeted areas include creating safer streets around schools, increasing access to cycle and secure cycle storage, making the Bee Network safe and secure, supporting young people to become travel champions and engaging schools and local communities.
People can access the draft School Travel Strategy and consultation documents at GMConsult.org.
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