Demonstrating its dedication to student safety and in line with the upcoming 2023-2024 academic year, Abu Dhabi City Municipality has successfully finished its initiative focused on augmenting traffic safety measures in the vicinities of schools throughout Abu Dhabi and its adjoining areas. This move is reflective of the Municipality's commitment to ensuring a secure environment for students, their guardians, educators, and drivers traversing these pivotal zones.
To delve into the specifics, under the banner of the Infrastructure and Municipal Assets Sector, the Municipality has rolled out a comprehensive suite of projects to revamp and strengthen the traffic safety elements within Abu Dhabi City's school regions. This includes maintaining traffic signs, enhancing pedestrian crossings, implementing speed-calming measures, clearing obstructions near schools, and refining traffic safety infrastructural elements.
In Madinat Zayed, similar endeavors were made, encompassing tile maintenance, revamping and upkeep of dedicated parking for the differently-abled, marking out school regions, erecting specialized corridors for the differently-abled, and ensuring directional and cautionary signboards are in optimal condition.
Furthermore, in Al Wathba city, the municipality has realized the objective of improving safety parameters around schools, which involves clearing obstructions near educational institutions, beautifying certain school environments with seedlings and ornamental flowers, road markings, signboard maintenance, tile upkeep, introducing speed bumps, and pedestrian lanes, and adjusting concrete barriers.
In Al Shahama, safety initiatives around schools saw tasks like repainting speed bumps, substituting aging pedestrian crossings, and refurbishing roads adjacent to schools.
Within this context, Abu Dhabi City Municipality appeals to drivers to exercise caution in school zones, comply with stipulated speed limits, and heed on-ground markers and directional signs. This is crucial for upholding student safety and mitigating potential mishaps. Additionally, the Municipality emphasizes the importance for parents to instill in their children the practice of using designated crossing zones when commuting to and from schools and mitigating potential mishaps. Additionally, the Municipality emphasizes the importance for parents to instill in their children the practice of using designated crossing zones when commuting to and from schools and to always follow safety guidelines when navigating streets to ensure their well-being and overall public safety.
School year decorations
At the same level, and within the framework of the Abu Dhabi City Municipality’s celebration of the new academic year, and to welcome the students and the teaching and administrative staff, the municipality implemented a project to decorate some of the main roads and areas with light formations bearing expressions welcoming the academic year, expressing appreciation and thanks to all workers in the education sector, and wishing a happy academic year. , distinguished and successful