Area Police Are Enforcing Pedestrian Safety Laws

[Note: This program reaches about 29% of the State's problem areas. If it were to include Baltimore City and County it would then include 74% of the State's problem areas. Note: If you live in PG or Mountgomry Co. be extra carful in March as everone is being targeted for tickets.]

Street Smart is an annual public education, awareness and behavioral change campaign in the Washington, DC, suburban Maryland and northern Virginia area. Since its beginning in 2002, the campaign has used radio, newspaper, and transit advertising, public awareness efforts, and added law enforcement, to respond to the challenges of pedestrian and bicyclist safety.

The Street Smart program emphasizes education of motorists and pedestrians through mass media. It is meant to complement, not replace, the efforts of state and local governments and agencies to build safer streets and sidewalks, enforce laws, and train better drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.

The program is coordinated by the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB), and is supported by federal funds made available through state governments, and funding from some TPB member jurisdictions.

The Spring 2008 Street Smart campaign will run from March 7 to March 31st.

The kick off press event will take place on March 7, 2008 at 10 a.m., in the Baileys Crossing Shopping Center parking lot at Route 7 & South Jefferson Street in Falls Church, VA. To find the site look for transit buses wrapped with Street Smart ads and campaign mobile billboard.

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