Saint-Laurent continues its back-to-school road safety efforts
Saint-Laurent — As thousands of young people head back to school, Saint-Laurent is pleased to announce that over $1.5 M were invested in collaboration with Ville de Montréal to continue to ensure safe and convenient travel on its territory, particularly in school zones.
The work carried out includes the following:
- Installation of 8 curb extensions (bulb-outs)
- Raising of 3 pedestrian crossings and 2 intersections
- Installation of 30 speed bumps
- Work on 1.6 km of sidewalks
Awareness campaign
Alongside carrying out this work, Saint-Laurent is continuing its campaign to raise awareness among motorists with traffic signs on residential streets around schools. Taking the shape of a student holding a placard that reads “Attention à nos enfants!” (“Watch out for our children!”), these signs represent an awareness measure that has proved effective for the last two years.
As has been the case for a few years now, Saint-Laurent is also conducting an awareness campaign around its schools in collaboration with the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), the Centre de services scolaires Marguerite-Bourgeoys and the English Montreal School Board.
The aim of this campaign is to encourage all those who travel in school zones – children and their parents, motorists, pedestrians and cyclists – to adopt safe behaviours when doing so. To achieve this goal, the partners have created various tools to raise awareness, including brochures that are handed out by the police teams from the SPVM’s poste de quartier 7 in front of approximately 15 schools in Saint-Laurent.
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Saint-Laurent elected officials with representatives of poste de quartier 7 and the borough in front of Cardinal-Léger elementary school.
