Crossing guards will be at fewer intersections this school year. Here's why.
Geoff MorrowAfter an apparently very rare but extensive study focused on city traffic and crosswalks, the City of York and York City School District has detailed changes to its crossing guard program ahead of the 2018-19 school year.
Responding to a Facebook post 10 days earlier in the public group, Fixing York PA, City of York chief of staff Philip Given embarked on a road of discovery in seeking answers to questions about the supposed elimination of crossing guards.
The results were detailed in a news release, just prior to Monday's start of school.
What he found was a 60-page report by York-based Transportation Resource Group from September 2017 focused primarily on three parts: 1. the number of students using crosswalks; 2. the number of accidents at various intersections (based on data supplied by the police department); and 3. something called "gap analysis," which is essentially a look at the number of cars on a street and the distance between those cars.
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Taking those figures into consideration, the City of York adjusted its crossing guard program from last year to this year, cutting the number of sites where a crossing guard is necessary from 47 to 36.
These are the sites where adult crossing guards will be used before and after school:
- Hill/Princess
- Pattison/Princess
- Atlantic/Chanceford
- Pennsylvania/Parkway
- Roosevelt/Maryland
- Roosevelt/Pennsylvania
- Roosevelt/Philadelphia
- Newberry/Jefferson
- Newberry/Cottage Hill
- Broad/Wallace
- Broad/Philadelphia
- Broad/Market
- York/Chestnut
- Prospect/College
- Queen/Cottage
- Queen/Harding
- Queen/Jackson
- George/Jackson
- Green/College
- Penn/College
- Jessop/KingsMill
- Manor/Kurtz
- Cleveland/Lafayette
- Penn/King
- Maryland/West
- Maryland/Belvidere
- Broad/King
- Duke/Cottage
- Pine/College
- Pine/King
- Sherman/Princess
- Pershing/Maple
- Edgar/Prospect
- Newberry/Kurtz
- Atlantic/Parkway
- Broad/Princess
And these are the sites that were staffed last year but have been eliminated ahead of the 2018-19 school year:
- Hill/4th
- Manor/Cottage
- Beaver/Jefferson
- Beaver/Jackson
- Duke/Jackson
- McKenzie/Jackson
- Pershing/Jefferson
- Pershing/Lafayette
- Pershing/Cottage
- Pine/Cottage
- Simpson/Princess
