• Speed Limit

The Board of Directors has set the speed limit of 15 miles per hour. (November 2016).

Until a sign is provided, the speed limit is 25 miles per hour as established by Roanoke.

• stop signs

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Changes That Can Help

Cars parked on streets are another safety hazard for children, according to Fegan.

"We know that children dart out and with parked cars, drivers can't see them," he said. "There are several things we

can do to limit that hazard. One would be to change how cars park. Engineers could eliminate street parking or switch to

angled parking on one side of the street. Another would be to lower the vehicle speed so there is more time to detect a

child and reduce potential injuries if there's an unfortunate crash."

But lowering the vehicle speed assumes there will be adequate enforcement of the law. And removing parked cars from

streets assumes developers and engineers will offer different kinds of housing and street designs than they do now.

Child pedestrian injuries due to traffic are more likely to occur in settings with high traffic volume and on-street parking, with

children’s often emerging “masked” from behind parked cars

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Young children have developmental limitations that prevent them from being safe pedestrians. In deciding when a child

can cross streets independently, parents must consider the child's age and maturity, the distance to be traveled, the amount of

on-street parking...

4.Community groups, municipal governments, and school systems should collaborate to design safe routes for children to

use to walk to school. Methods to meet this goal could include sidewalks, traffic calming, on-street parking limits,

In 2004, The Neighborhood Road Safety Initiative (NRSI) (http://www.nrsi.org.uk/) was set up by the UK Department for

Transport as part of the government's road safety target to tackle the significantly higher incidence of road traffic injury in

disadvantaged communities. The NRSI involved 14 of the 15% lowest socioeconomic districts with the highest rates of child

pedestrian road traffic injury nationally. An additional district was also included because of its high levels of pedestrian

casualty. These districts were asked to bid for funding to address child traffic injury in their area. The Department for Transport

encouraged districts to adopt holistic approaches to address the multiple causes of road traffic injury in low socioeconomic

areas. Previous research has shown that the risk for children in low socioeconomic areas is related to living in older inner‐city‐

style residential areas built before mass car ownership, characterized by long straight roads, which give rise to high vehicle

speeds, and with considerable on‐street parking. These areas were built before 1960, after which road safety became an

integral part of housing development guidance in the UK.

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