NMDOT creates Traffic Safety Garden for kids

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The New Mexico Department of Transportation created a Traffic Safety Garden where kids can practice positive traffic safety behavior. The garden is located at NMDOT’s campus in Santa Fe and is open to the public throughout the month.

Children can learn and practice using crosswalks, looking both ways for oncoming traffic, recognizing stop and yield signs, and facing traffic while walking.

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“Ingraining positive traffic safety habits in children is an important part of the behavior change New Mexico needs. Children will become future drivers, and more immediately they’ll encourage their parents to adopt these behaviors behind the wheel,” said Cabinet Secretary Ricky Serna.

The NMDOT designed traffic garden is made with spaces commonly seen on New Mexico roads—intersections with and without marked crosswalks, railroad crossings, roads without sidewalks, and roundabouts.

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