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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno County Board of Supervisors had a engaged greeting astatine their monthly meeting, unanimously approving projects that would heighten pedestrian and children's information connected the roadways.
The region has been increasing astatine a accelerated complaint implicit the past fewer years, and Fresno County Supervisor Luis Chavez says the existent infrastructure can't support up.
"Our infrastructure truly wasn't built for that galore folks that, you know, thrust cars and oregon bicycles. And present we person electrical scooters and electrical bikes," helium listed.
So, the region supervisors approved a $248,000 assistance done the California Office of Traffic Safety successful hopes of reducing the fig of deaths and injuries involving vehicles and pedestrians. The task targets 15 schools astir the county, providing impermanent improvements similar crosswalks, lighting, signage, and different information enhancements.
One of those schools is Calwa Elementary, which Chavez says has already received a pedestrian crossing.
"Then successful the future, bring successful an existent information postulation airy there," Chavez explained.
Other schools see Riverdale, Powers-Ginsberg, Washington Colony, Washington Union, and Addams Elementary.
"The assemblage of Adams Elementary, arsenic good that we know, has had a way grounds of accidents and adjacent calls," Chavez said.
Fresno County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Michele Cantwell-Copher is pleased to spot the region prioritizing the information of students arsenic they walk, bike, oregon rotation to school.
"The information that they person taken backing that's available. It won't outgo the taxpayers immoderate money, and they're going to trial the theories. They're going to trial retired what mightiness enactment earlier making imperishable decisions. I conscionable deliberation that's a dependable attack and I judge it's going to nutrient truly large outcomes," she exclaimed.
Another task approved is an all-way halt astatine the intersection of McKinley and Leonard Avenues, which is conscionable down the thoroughfare from the recently opened Terry P. Bradley Educational Center. The Clovis Unified School District volition supply and instal the halt signs.
The past approved point is the Child Passenger Safety Program with a much than $187,300 grant, funded by the state.
"The past mates of years, we've had 39 fatalities for children that were successful a conveyance that did not person a car spot and unluckily passed away," Chavez detailed.
These funds volition supply escaped car seats, bilingual education, and car spot installation.
"A car spot nowadays is, you know, upwards of $150 to $200, and a batch of families can't spend that," Chavez shared.
Chavez says these projects were made imaginable with the collaboration and enactment betwixt region and metropolis leaders.
