Cary Grove students present one‑mile traffic safety plan calling for bike lanes, raised crosswalks and automated enforcement

Cary Grove High School students presented a traffic safety plan to the Village of Cary board on Feb. 4 that recommends a package of engineering and enforcement measures aimed at reducing pedestrian and vehicle collisions within a one‑mile radius of the school.

The presentation opened with Aaron Pfeiffer, a Cary Grove teacher, praising students’ work and noting the timing of the report as the village prepares its capital improvement plan and budget. "I was very impressed with the detail, the depth of the review that you're about to see," he said.

The students said their objective was "to design a roadway network within 1 mile of Cary Grove High School's radius to eliminate fatalities for the next 25 years," Nora Urbadis, a student in the AP Human Geography class, told the board. Their recommendations combined infrastructure changes and enforcement: buffered bike lanes on collector streets, raised crosswalks at select intersections, rectangular rapid flashing…