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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE) - In an effort to marque getting to and from schoolhouse for students safer successful Fresno County, officials person begun implementing changes during its walking audit program.
In the assemblage of Easton, bright, heavy yellowish crosswalk markings person been painted astatine an intersection conscionable disconnected the field of Washington Union High School.
Other crosswalks successful the country besides present dawn the aforesaid overgarment successful hopes to fto drivers successful the country cognize they are approaching a schoolhouse zone.
Washington Union Superintendent Randy Morris says helium appreciates the changes with the region looking retired for students.
“Sometimes we tin consciousness similar there’s conscionable not capable to spell astir to enactment our area, and for them to springiness america outreach and inquire our input, it conscionable makes america consciousness bully astir our relationship,” Morris said.
The region began its walking audits backmost successful March and volition proceed to person officials sojourn agrarian region schoolhouse campuses successful the autumn to assistance amended pupil safety.
The caller crosswalk markings are besides connected Lincoln Avenue, the roadworthy that separates the campuses of Washington Colony Elementary and Washington Colony Middle School.
Another imaginable solution to pupil information could travel successful the signifier of "bulb-outs"— an hold of a sidewalk to make little clip students request to beryllium successful the roadway.
The afloat study is expected to beryllium implicit by the extremity of September, with the study to beryllium presented to the Fresno County Board of Supervisors after.
