Government of Manitoba - Safe Schools Training Video
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This short presentation highlights the provincial government school area traffic safety guidelines. The guidelines contain information that can help to make the streets in your neighborhood and near your school safer. Have you ever wondered why are there no sidewalks leading to my school? What a crosswalk. Help me cross the street. What's the walking school bus or cycle train? Is the drop off area in my school safe? Every school has different safety issues that kids, teachers and parents have to deal with every day. Things like speeding too much traffic at, pick up and drop off times confusing signs and not enough sidewalks crosswalks to make it safe to get to school. Parents, teachers and kids like me can be involved in solving safety issues like thes to show you some of the traffic problems that happen. Your schools. Let me tell you about my school. It isn't a busy neighborhood close to a major street at my school were lucky because the arena right beside the school allows school buses and parents cars to park on the property during school hours. They're two separate parking areas. There's one area for school bus is shown in red and another for parents to pick up and drop off their kids. Shown in purple, Some parents use the front street for dropping off or picking up their kids. And sometimes they can stop their cars and block our to crosswalks, which could create problems. There are no sidewalks in front of the school, and that could make it hard for kids to walk and ride their bikes to school. There is a pathway that leads to the school from the major street showing yellow. But when my friends and I use the path, we have to cross the busy back lane and go through the parent drop off zone to get to the schoolyard. Sometimes it can get pretty hectic back there. These are some pretty common school safety issues that every school may have different safety issues that need to be solved in different ways. Two years ago, the provincial government put together guidelines that talk about how to solve traffic problems around schools across Manitoba. The guidelines also give tips on planning a new school to avoid traffic safety problems in the future. The government had engineers work with Manitoba Education and Advanced Learning, the RCMP, Manitoba Public Insurance City of Winnipeg manager with School Boards Association and Green Action Centre. These guidelines show you how to make up a team to discover the traffic safety issues around your school and your neighborhood. The guidelines also have what's called a toolkit full of a lot of helpful ideas to solve traffic safety problems in a safe and consistent way so that drivers and kids can see the same traffic treatments. No matter where a school is located in the province from the toolkit, your team can pick the ideas that likes best and then work with the local government. Have er do is put in place to start aimed for a team of 6 to 8 people. The team can include parents, kids, people who work at your school like teachers and principals, people who work at the school division, police officers, people who work for the government and traffic engineers. The guidelines give you instructions on how to do in class and take home surveys about how people get to and from school examples of the forms you can use to count traffic or parked cars. Tips on how to put together the information you gathered tips about talking to experts who deal with traffic problems about issues at your school and instructions on how to write a report and make sure decision makers who need to read it can use it. The toolkit is the biggest part of the guidelines. The first part of the toolkit talks about educating drivers in order to help them understand what is unsafe to do while driving near a school. As an example, you can put up signs that tell drivers their speed so they know if they're going too fast. The guidelines also have a lot of information about how solved traffic issues that happened off school property in your neighborhood. It is important for kids and other people to have sidewalks and paths to use that are connected and easy to get to. The guidelines talk about improvements that can be made, sidewalks and pathways. They also talk about traffic devices for crossing the street and other neat things, like walking school buses, walking school buses, an organized program that encourages kids to walk to school as a group while being supervised by adult volunteers. Just like a regular school bus. It travels through a neighborhood, picking up or dropping off kids along the way. Very cool. I know a lot of kids who like to walk, ride their bike or skateboard to school. The guidelines talk about how you can try to get things like bike lanes or pathways added to your neighborhood. These days, a lot of kids don't walk to school. They come in their parents car or on the school bus. Because of this, the guidelines give a lot of information about how to make our roads safer for cars and buses, and that's awesome. You could make your school pick up and drop off area sleep for by looking at stop signs and signals, parking and loading zones, lower speed school zones and traffic calming devices. It's also important for everyone to be safe on school property. The tool kit in the guideline also gives you ways to put in or improve fences, signs and pavement markings. Driveways that separate cars, buses and bikes, floating spots for school buses, parking areas for cars, secure storage areas for bikes and lighting. If you want more information or you want to download a copy of the government school area traffic safety guidelines, visit this website or call the government's traffic engineering office at 20494537 a one. Thank you.