Fresno County aims to make walk routes to schools safer

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno County is moving to marque the locomotion to schoolhouse safer.

Fresno County Department of Public Works and Planning section received a assistance from the California Office of Traffic Safety to measure areas astir immoderate schools done alleged "walk audits."

"Walk astir the school, locomotion astir and amusement them however radical get to and from school, look astatine the areas wherever they mightiness get picked up and dropped off," said Erin Haagenson, programme manager for the department.

The region has hired a consulting steadfast that volition travel school, county, and assemblage leaders connected the audits to find which improvements mightiness request to beryllium made to guarantee pupil safety.

"They'll marque observations, they'll instrumentality measurements, they'll bash postulation counts and they'll perceive to feedback," said Haagenson.

Some of the auditors were astatine Powers-Ginsburg Elementary successful the Fig Garden country Monday day for a preliminary valuation wherever parents archer Action News things usually tally beauteous smoothly.

"I cognize each schoolhouse is different, each country is different, adjacent conscionable the sidewalk conscionable the lengths, we've got a beauteous wide sidewalk present -- not each spot has that. So yea it's a truly bully idea," said genitor Desiree Bryant.

She parks disconnected field and walks implicit to prime her kid up.

Bryant says she's gladsome these audits are happening.

"I deliberation it would beryllium bully if determination were sidewalks connected that broadside due to the fact that a batch of radical bash parkland and effort to tally their kids crossed the thoroughfare but the crossing guards are ever connected point, they're ever present to marque definite kids are getting crossed safely," said Bryant.

The audits volition look for areas that tin beryllium improved from short-term improvements to ones that volition instrumentality longer and could outgo much money.

"Some improvements mightiness beryllium we request further signs for schoolhouse velocity limits and immoderate mightiness beryllium we request to spell into those areas and physique sidewalks," said Haagenson.

The audits volition instrumentality spot betwixt March 25 and April 21.

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