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A Resident's Guide for Creating Safe and Walkable Communities
Resource Materials
Resource Sheet 10: Enforcement Contact Worksheet
Law enforcement contacts:
City Chief of Police
Head of Traffic Section
Key Patrol Officer
When developing a relationship with your local law enforcement agency, here are a few questions to ask:
- Who are the contacts in the department who are interested in pedestrian safety or are working on pedestrian issues?
- What enforcement measures are currently in place to protect pedestrians? What are needed?
- Is the departmental budget and number of traffic patrols adequate to allow for emphasis enforcement of pedestrian safety issues?
Summary of key pedestrian-related laws and related penalties:
Speeding
Jaywalking
Not yielding at crosswalks
Other
Police department policy and training process related to enforcement of pedestrian laws:
Ways that pedestrian concerns could be better addressed:
Adapted from Streets For People, Too!, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, Seattle, Washington.
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Tamara Redmon
tamara.redmon@dot.gov
202-366-4077
Dick Schaffer
dick.schaffer@dot.gov
202-366-2176
What's New
The FHWA Safety Office is continually developing new materials to assist states, localities and citizens in improving pedestrian and bicycle safety. The materials listed on this page were completed recently.
Examples of State/Local Pedestrian Safety Action Plans
Pedestrian Forum - Fall 2009
LTAP/TTAP Interchange, Tamara Redmon
Evaluation of the Focused Approach to Pedestrian Safety Program (PDF 225 KB)
“Not in Roadway” Pedestrian and Bicycle Crashes (PDF 132 KB)
How to Develop a Pedestrian Safety Action Plan (PDF 5.14 MB)
FHWA Guidance Memo Contains Provisions to Improve Pedestrian Safety
Toolbox of Countermeasures and Their Potential Effectiveness for Pedestrian Crashes
Pedestrian Safety Guide for Transit Agencies
Evaluation of Pedestrian Countermeasures in Three Cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas and Miami
Pedestrian Road Safety Audit Guidelines and Prompt Lists
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