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A crossing guard (North American English), [1] lollipop man/lady (British, Irish, and Australian English), [2] [3] or school road patrol (New Zealand English) [4] is a traffic management personnel who is normally stationed on busy roadways to aid pedestrians.
Cattle grid on country road. Cattle grids are usually installed on roads where they cross a fenceline, often at a boundary between public and private lands. [5] They are an alternative to the erection of gates that would need to be opened and closed when a vehicle passes, and are common where roads cross open moorland, rangeland or common land maintained by grazing, but where segregation of ...
Level crossing signals are electronic warning devices for road vehicles at railroad level crossings.. Level crossings can be operated in various ways. In some countries such as the UK, the warning devices are more often than not activated by remote control, I.e. an operator pressing buttons.
The school year started with a mix of crossing guards and police officers manning posts at the district's two high schools, four middle schools, one intermediate school, 10 elementary schools and ...
OpEd: Our crossing guards risk life and limb to protect our kids from our own distracted driving. Yet we pay them less than many delivery drivers.
With a week or so before the start of the school year, Tampa Bay area school districts face shortages of teachers, bus drivers, and now crossing guards.
Traffic guards, also known as traffic controllers and flaggers, are trained to set up warning signs and barricades to slow down the speed of traffic in a temporary traffic control zone. When they are on scene they will set up equipment to warn approaching traffic about the incident.
Junior safety patrol is a voluntary group of crossing guards involving older students helping younger students cross streets in elementary and middle schools across the United States and Canada. Both the Chicago Motor Club and the St. Paul Police started programs in 1920.