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Initiatives completed

  
 List of initiatives completed to make Greensburg streets safer for children.

1.     Four-way stop sign at the high school entrance.

2.     Ordinance passed to make the school zone a "No Passing" zone.

3.     Asphalt sidewalk in front of Robert F. Nicely Elementary on McLaughlin Drive for students.

4.     Concrete sidewalk on Meadowbrook Drive extended to join the Nicely School crosswalk.

5.     School Zone signs relocated to better define the school zone.

6.     Police use VASCAR in the school zones.

7.     Speed check unit to show drivers their rate of speed in the school zone.

8.     School crosswalks highlighted.

9.     Solid white line painted to define the new asphalt sidewalk.

10.  Greensburg Mayor and Council members aware of the need to increase safety in school zone.

11.  Maple Ave. one-way when school buses are loading and unloading children.

12.  Flyers to PTA and to alert parents about the need for a safer school zone.

13.  Hand-outs at voting polls asking voters to vote for candidates who work for safer school zones

14.  Door to door hand outs and meetings with residents to alert them to drive slowly around children.

15.  Slow Down For Children bumper stickers.

16.  Slow Down For Children T-Shirts.

17.  Vote For Candidates Who Promote Safer School Zones" signs at election polls.

18.  Community alerted that police are enforcing speed limits in our school zones.

19.  Safety fence between Nicely Elementary and McLaughlin Drive.

20.  Publish School Zone Reporter and periodical notices.

21.  Slow Down For Children representative attends City Council and School Board meetings..

22.  Designed and webmaster the Slow Down For Children website.

23.  Opt-in e-mail list about school zone safety.

24.  Instituted school bus watch program.

25.  Purchased RADAR unit to monitor traffic in school zones.

26.  Speakers at Nicely PTA.

27.  Letters to the Editor of newspapers about school zone safety.

28.  Provide public speakers on school zone safety.

29.  Participate in Radio talk shows and television stories on school zone safety.

30.  Promoted school zones speeding fines to be increased to $500.00.

31.  Working to convince Legislators to allow municipal police to use RADAR in school zones.

32.  Working to convince GS school board to install safer fence  for Nicely school children.

We could not have accomplished all of this without the cooperation of the good people in our community, the Greensburg City Council and police department, the Greensburg Salem school Board, those who have donated money to Slow Down For Children, Inc., and all those friends of children who have Slow Down For Children bumper stickers on their cars. But even with all the accomplishments and all of the cooperation, we still have not done enough as long as one car is speeding through a school zone and the life of one child is at risk.