Join us for Safe Kids/Walkable Neighborhoods: Walk Our Children to School Week/Pedestrian Zone Campaign October 2-6, 2000.
Greater Madison Safe Community Coalition, Pedestrian Zone Campaign neighborhoods and Madison Area SAFE KIDS Coalition invite all Madison neighborhood associations and Dane County communities to participate in the second annual Walk Our Children to School Week/Pedestrian Zone Campaign.
Last year’s Walk/PZ Campaign was a huge success, thanks to the energy and enthusiasm of concerned neighbors like you. The five "Pedestrian Zone Campaign" neighborhoods associations: dudgeon-Monroe, Tenney-Lapham, Vilas, Emerson East and Regent, organized a week’s worth of activities aimed at improving driver behavior and keeping pedestrians safe. Pedestrian safety rallies, a UW-Hospital Med flight landing, and coordinated yard sign campaigns asking motorists to "slow down, watch for kids" were just some of their efforts.
Walk Our Children to School Week and Pedestrian Zone Campaign are joining forces again this year to improve pedestrian safety and quality of life of Madison and Dane County residents.
Won’t you join us? All Madison neighborhood associations and Dane County communities are invited to participate!
How it works: Neighborhood associations and Dane County communities pledge to organize a day of activities in their neighborhood. Sample Pedestrian Zone activities include:
Walk your children to school, and/or help organize pedestrian safety activities at your neighborhood elementary school;
Organize distribution of "slow down, watch for kids" yard signs to neighborhood residents interested in posting these signs. In their yards;
Coordinate volunteers and celebrities to drive the speed limit in "pace cars";
Organize volunteers to staff "speed boards" that educate motorists about their speed;
Recruit volunteers to escort pedestrians across busy and dangerous intersections;
Work with local police to coordinate volunteer efforts with traffic enforcement.
A Pedestrian Zone Campaign Organizational Meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 12 at 7 PM at Dudgeon Center, 3200 Monroe Street in the Gym (second floor). At this meeting we’ll coordinate which neighborhoods are doing what-when during the week of October 2nd so we can coordinate our media campaign, distribution of yard signs, placement of "speed boards" and traffic enforcement by the MPD Traffic Enforcement Safety Team (TEST).
For more information, contact Cheryl Wittke, Greater Madison Safe Community Coalition at 256-6713 or Ann Clark, Dudgeon-Monroe Neighborhood Association at 238-5612. THANKS.