What’s The Issue?
In America, there are over 81. 5 million K-12 students. It should be the goal of every school district and city to create safe routes for these kids as they travel to and from school each day. Traffic around schools can be especially heavy, and drivers often fail to notice a lower speed limit in effect.
Here’s an alarming statistic from the National Highway Safety Administration: traffic accidents involving pedestrians occur most frequently between 6-9 A.M. and 3-6 P.M. These are the hours when students are traveling to and from school, so it is doubly important to ensure that your students can safely arrive and depart each day.
What’s The Solution?
While educating children in road safety sounds like a great idea, these programs are “unable to exert meaningful changes in the behavior of children,