This is a step-by-step guide for school communities seeking to improve safety on their campuses during student arrival and departure times. The intended audience for this handbook is your school safety committee or similar group of adults invested in improving student safety before and after school. While it is very important to have a good plan for how to drive near school, This is not a traffic engineering manual to improve the flow of cars or increase convenience for drivers, although those might be secondary benefits. The focus is on student safety throughout, which means slowing traffic down. Arrival and departure is not just about drop-off and pick-up by car. It also encompasses and prioritizes the experience of the students who walk, take the bus, or ride bikes to school. |
