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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Central Unified School District is gearing up for the archetypal time of schoolhouse adjacent week. Parents and students tin expect caller information features successful beforehand of Herndon-Barstow Elementary successful Fresno.
The "High Intensity Activated Crosswalk," oregon "HAWK," crosswalk strategy aims to support kids harmless connected their mode to class.
"Once that pedestrian pushes the fastener to cross, it'll crook connected the reddish lights to fto motorists cognize you request to travel to a stop, let radical to safely get to the different side, and past the cars tin proceed done the traffic," Fresno County Sheriff's Public Information Officer Tony Botti said.
Botti said the features from the HAWK springiness drivers a wide presumption of students. The crosswalk is expected to beryllium implicit aft the schoolhouse twelvemonth begins.
"This caller crosswalk country is overmuch much prominent. It's going to beryllium a batch easier for motorists to spot that kids are really crossing here," Botti said.
Botti says the crosswalk is agelong overdue.
"It was precise dangerous. It was hard to spot due to the fact that cars would walk astir connected the right-hand broadside and not spot students," helium said.
The task on Grantland Avenue is funded by Central Unified, City of Fresno and Fresno County.
This is an effort to marque schoolhouse zones safer.
"People request to recognize that they request to dilatory down. It is 25 miles an hr successful a schoolhouse zone. There's going to beryllium velocity enforcement retired with CHP, Fresno Police and sheriff's deputies," Botti said.
He urges parents to let other clip successful the morning, dilatory down, and beryllium patient.
"Understand that opening adjacent week, things are going to get a batch much congested. There's going to beryllium pedestrians, buses, cars, dropping kids off," Botti said.
