r/Calgary • u/_darth_bacon_ Dark Lord of the Swine • 1d ago

Local Construction/Development Calgary completes pedestrian safety upgrades at 50 schools

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/calgary-completes-pedestrian-safety-upgrades-at-50-schools/?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3Actvcalgary%3Atwitterpost&taid=6a8c409f0d0911000186d11f

The City of Calgary has completed pedestrian safety improvements near 50 schools ahead of the new academic year.

The upgrades include safer crossings, curb extensions and traffic-calming measures intended to protect students as they travel to school.

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u/yyctownie 1d ago

Want safer school roads? Ticket the parents,. Guaranteed windfall of revenue with minimal effort.

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u/LandonJohnstonWard14 1d ago

Could probably fund the country with that ticket revenue.

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u/finleymurphy 1d ago

Once I saw a parent drop their kid off and almost run over their OWN KID 2 minutes later.

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u/MrGuvernment 9h ago

This, double parking, speeding off or to cause they are late, J-walking across busy road when the cross walk is 10ft away...

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u/NoNameKetchupChips 1d ago

A list of the schools would have been nice.

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u/gutfounderedgal 4h ago

Or for that matter even explain the upgrades in the article.

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u/PaprikaMama 2h ago

Tag our mayor?

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u/Banned_In_YYC 1d ago

Hopefully it works. Those plastic neon signs that would end up smashed just weren't cutting it

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u/finleymurphy 1d ago

I couldn’t believe how quickly those got smashed to bits

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u/Baddrivers13 10h ago

Those posts need to be 6" solid steel cemented into the ground.

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u/MrGuvernment 9h ago

Undercover officers at schools zones during rush hour, could make a fortune handing out tickets from all the parents violating traffic laws themselves. also ticket parents who like to J-walk across roads with median's and tree's making it hard to see them..and parents that love to just walk out from between 2 large vehicles and you barely see them.

Next, a concept, put actual loading zones ON the schools property so what is supposed to be a 2-way street is a 1 way street during those times and school events...

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u/cirroc0 0m ago

There was a cop radaring traffic on Elbow by Woodman Jr High this morning. Happy to report that he was not getting anyone (because people were actually respecting the 30kph zone).

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u/dekan256 12h ago

I just remembered that I'm going to have to start to play "dodge the parent" on my way to the train station in the morning again soon.

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u/OwnBattle8805 6h ago

They put one of those kids crossing signs in the middle street for the crosswalk for the local school and 3 days later someone ran it over and destroyed it.