Safety Programs

Safety Engineering

DOT's School Safety Engineering program maintains a database of over 1,400 program schools citywide. The program includes public and private, elementary and middle schools with 250 or more students. Around each program school DOT installs and maintains safety engineering treatments that increase visibility and promote safety at intersections where students cross to and from school. In addition, DOT has created Traffic Safety Maps for over 1,400 programs schools to help students plan their safest routes to school.

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Calming Traffic

Traffic calming devices are part of a toolbox of measures DOT uses to enhance safety, along with engineering and signal timing changes, and education and enforcement initiatives.
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Traffic Safety Maps

In addition to these physical improvements, the DOT also prepares Traffic Safety Maps for schools serving elementary and intermediate school students having an enrollment of 250 students or more. The maps show the roadway network, signals, and school crosswalks surrounding over 1,400 schools. The maps can be used by teachers, parents, and students to plan a safe route to walk to school.