City of Fresno receives nearly $300,000 for bicyclists, pedestrians

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The City of Fresno's Parks, After School, Recreation and Community Services (PARCS) Department announced that the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) approved a $296,000 assistance to enactment the city's Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Program.

Officials accidental this assistance volition let the section to beforehand harmless practices for pedestrians and bicyclists and supply acquisition astir the value of sharing the road.

Mayor Jerry Dyer says that acquisition volition assistance guarantee the information of cyclists and pedestrians connected the roadway.

“People should consciousness harmless to walk, run, and thrust their bicycles successful the City of Fresno, and due acquisition is cardinal to making that extremity a reality,” Dyer said.

According to officials assistance funds volition enactment a assortment of activities focused connected bicycle and pedestrian safety, including:

• Bicycle grooming courses that amended younker connected harmless riding behaviors.
• Helmet fitting inspections and organisation of helmets to those successful need.
• Community and schoolhouse acquisition presentations.
• Community motorcycle rides that promote and thatch riders harmless riding skills.
• Pop-up events that beforehand the value of visibility connected roads with information instrumentality specified arsenic reflective armbands/leg bands and bicycle headlights/taillights.
• Distribution of information equipment.
• Distribution of crossing defender kits to section schools.

The assistance programme volition tally done September 2025.