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County council reviews final School Pedestrian Safety work group report with 18 recommendations
Summary
The Prince George's County Council received a briefing on a work group report that proposes 18 recommendations to improve pedestrian safety near schools, including walk audits, traffic calming, crossing guard strategies and bilingual education; council members urged budgeting for crossing guards in the next fiscal cycle.
The Prince George's County Council on Jan. 28, 2025 received a briefing on the School Pedestrian Safety work group’s final report and recommendations, developed after five meetings and completed in December 2024.
The report, assembled under resolution CR 9 (2024) and extended by CR 78 to a December 2024 deadline, proposes 18 recommendations intended to reduce pedestrian risk around county schools. Arianne Aubert, director of the Education and Workforce Development Committee staff, told the council the work group formed after the November 2023 deaths of two Riverdale Elementary School students and that Prince George's County remains among the deadliest jurisdictions for pedestrians in the Baltimore–Washington region.
The recommendations cover infrastructure, evaluation and education: require pedestrian-safety infrastructure at the time of school construction; launch a countywide accessibility evaluation for PGCPS (Prince George’s County Public Schools) campuses; create a unified walk-audit template; set up proactive…
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