My child walks to school. Why are some locations signed with a pentagon shaped school crossing sign and others are not?
School Walk Routes approved by the local jurisdiction identify the direction and which side of the street that children are to use in walking to and from school. Designated school crossings on these School Walk Routes identify those locations where special emphasis may be needed due to a combination of the number of crossing school children, geometry of the approaching roadways, approach speed, and traffic volume. Such locations, which are signed with the pentagon shaped School Crossing warning sign, might be a school crossing of a busy arterial street or the primary crossing in front of an elementary school. Additionally, where the crossing is controlled by a STOP sign, the School Crossing warning sign is not used, because the approach is stop controlled.
