Program Goals:
1. Reduce the number of children and other pedestrians and motorists who are injured or killed in traffic.
2. Keep the number of children walking to school at 80% by making the walking routes safer.

Benefiting:

• 33,5420 Students at 38 elementary schools.
• 300,000 Bronx residents living near or walking or driving by the schools.

Projected Improvements:

• A 30% reduction in crashes and associated deaths and injuries.
• Ensure that 80% of children in the Bronx continue to walk to school.
• 96 fewer motor vehicle crashes per year. 2,865.5 fewer motor vehicle accidents over the 30 year average life of the safety devices.
• 585 fewer pedestrians injured per year. 1,181 fewer pedestrians injured over the 30 year life of the traffic calming measures.
• 36 fewer children, aged 14 and under, injured by motor vehicles per year. 1,095 fewer children, age 14 and under, injured by motor vehicles over the 30 year life of the devices.
• 4-5 fewer pedestrian fatalities per year. 135 fewer pedestrian fatalities over the 30 year life of the devices.
• 2 fewer children, age 14 and under, killed by motor vehicles each year, and 45 fewer children killed over the project's life time.

Program Strengths:

• Measured and proven effectiveness of traffic calming and safety engineering measures as injury/accident prevention measures.
• Collaborative planning process builds on diverse knowledge of everyone who shares a concern for each school's traffic safety: parents, teachers, police, DOT.
• Participatory program fosters sense of ownership and responsibility, raising parents awareness of child-pedestrian traffic safety issues.
• Provides a way for the DOT to reach out to communities and address their traffic safety concerns before the community reaches their "boiling point."
• Facilitates the development of community consensus on the often contentious issue of roadway redesign.
  Synopsis:
• Identified walking routes to school where traffic safety was a major community concern, where there were many accidents, and where change would be welcome.
• Educate parents at 38 schools about child pedestrian safety issues and solutions.
• Developed detailed traffic calming plans, ready for the DOT to design and build.
• Worked with parents and community to an agreement on what changes and improvements could be made in their neighborhood.
• Sought sources of funding to assist DOT in construction of traffic calming improvements.