“Safety and accessibility should be for everyone, including disabled residents, elderly, bicyclists — and kids going to school,” writes Sabina Deitrick, secretary of the Taylor Allderdice High School Parent Teacher Organization. (Photo by Ryan Loew/PublicSource)
by Sabina Deitrick, PublicSource
told by the people living them.
Some things in local government should be easy. But, as many residents know, some things are not.
Beginning in 2017, as a parent of an Allderdice High School student and secretary of the Parent Teacher Organization [PTO], I worked with other parents to request that the City of Pittsburgh paint high-quality, high-visibility crosswalks at the school. At most intersections, there were either no painted crosswalks or they were of very low quality.
There are many forms of safety for school crossings that are expensive, but high-visibility paint for crosswalks to a school — how hard can that be?
I eventually learned that our efforts were following years of unsuccessful and less-than-successful efforts by school officials, parents and neighbors, all trying to get safer crosswalks for students.
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