Sentence examples for school crossings from inspiring English sources

The Yonkers Police Department hired 10 women to serve as traffic officers at school crossings for $4 a day.

If Mr Delanoë scores higher for creativity, it is with ideas to bring unused private housing into public management, or to employ the legions of jobless young to guard school crossings and so free the police to fight crime, or to offer better-directed treatment programmes for drug addicts.

The Labour-run council approved plans to cut 24 lollipop patrols at school crossings.

Seventy-nine PMVCs (30%%) occurred during crossing guard duty times and 181 (70 %) occurred outside of duty times.> There were 5826 crossing-guard months prior to the implementation of school crossing guards with a total of 176 PMVCs (crude rate of 3/100 cross-guard months), and 2584 months of exposure following implementation with a total of 84 PMVCs (crude rate of 3.3/100 crossing-guard months).

A quarter of school road crossings in the city are without a warden.

The Stamford Police Department trains civilians to be crossing guards at school and church crossings, and it maintains a special services department where construction companies and retail stores can hire officers to help with safety and security.

Additionally, 63% of these parents reported that having crossing guards, marked crossings near the school, and having before and after school supervision (i.e., walking escorted) would also increase the likelihood of their child walking/biking to and from school.

For example, 63% of parents of children driven to school indicated that having crossing guards and marked crossings by the school would increase the likelihood of their child walking to/from school.

He said discussions were under way with schools over how to fund crossings.

John Leech, Liberal Democrat MP for Manchester Withington, said it was "outrageous" that the council was trying to force the responsibility of crossings on to schools.

But with multi-lane highways to navigate on the way to school, and a lack of safe crossings, a quarter of the pupils have been in a road crash and a third have seen a close relative injured or killed.