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Our goal is to get more children traveling safely to school on foot or bike with greater frequency

Safe Routes To School in Maricopa

Safe Routes to School Programs

look different from community to community. Yet they all share the common goal to improve the health of kids and the community by making walking and bicycling to school safer, easier and more enjoyable.

  • WHO? These programs involve parents, community members, school staff, traffic engineers, city planners, law enforcement officers, community leaders and many others.
  • HOW? They work to assess the safety of school travel routes; make changes such as building crosswalks or adding crossing guards; educate students and drivers about safe travel and encourage walking and biking to school. Some programs expand to promote safe walking and bicycling throughout the community.

2009 MAG Regional School Crossing Guard Training Workshop

We would like to invite school crossing guards and interested school officials that serve in school districts within Maricopa County to attend either of two half-day Regional School Crossing Guard Training Workshops that will be held at the beginning of school year in 2009. The first workshop will be held on July 30, 2009 in Peoria, and the second will be held on August 6, 2009 in Mesa. We are organizing these workshops as part of a regional effort to improve road safety on access routes to elementary and middle schools. The workshop content was developed in partnership with a number of cities in the Phoenix metropolitan region. We hope to see participation by schools in your district. There is no cost to attend either workshop.

News & Events

DVD Box CoverNovember 1, 2008 - MAG produced “Guardians of the Future: Keeping Children Safe in Yellow Crosswalks” School Crossing Guard training DVD. This was made possible through a regional partnership that included traffic safety professionals from the cities: Avondale, Glendale, Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix and Tempe, and also MAG staff. The technical production of the video was carried out by the Communications Group at MAG. The DVD contains both English and Spanish versions.

This video is utilized at our annual school crossing guard training workshops. While these regional workshops are held once a year in early August, school officials are responsible for providing training to new crossing guards that come on board mid-year. The goal of this video is to serve as a training resource for city and school officials in providing basic road safety information that every school crossing guard should be made aware. We have distributed copies of this video to all schools districts in Maricopa County.

If you would like to receive additional copies of the DVD please contact Judy Tadlock at (602) 254-6300 or email your request to: jtadlock@mag.maricopa.gov

Safe Routes To School in Maricopa
Providing safer routes to school offers a full range of benefits:

  • It's Fun!

  • It's Healthy

  • It's Non-polluting

  • It's Friendly

  • It's Educational

  • It's Economical

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