Traffic safety improvements coming to schools





Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks has announced that new traffic safety improvements will be installed at three elementary schools and one middle school in unincorporated areas of her district.


Grant funding will pay for new "in-pavement" flashing lights at marked crosswalks leading to Brookside and Red Oak elementary schools in Oak Park and at Walnut Elementary School in Newbury Park.


A permanent vehicle speed monitoring sign that displays the speed of passing vehicles will be installed at the approach to Medea Creek Middle School in Oak Park.


"The safety of our schoolchildren is a top priority for Ventura County, and traffic near schools is of particular concern," Parks said. "The flashing lights at the crosswalks will help children cross the streets more safely. As a secondary benefit, the safer crosswalks may encourage more children to walk to school and lessen the number of cars clogging up the streets around the schools," she said.


The permanent vehicle speed monitoring sign at Medea Creek Middle School in Oak Park will be the first for the Oak Park community and will be solar powered.


"The residents of Oak Park have expressed a strong desire for enhanced traffic controls around Medea Creek Middle School. The addition of a speed monitoring sign joins a half dozen other measures implemented near the school in the past year," said Parks. "I am very pleased that in this time of state budget crisis, the county has won grant funding to improve the safety of Oak Park’s schoolchildren."


Parks represents Ventura County’s second district, which includes Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, Westlake Village, Oak Park, Santa Rosa Valley, Bell Canyon, Hidden Valley, Lake Sherwood, Malibu-Yerba Buena and portions of the Oxnard Plain.


For more information, please call (805) 373-2564.



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