Central New York families have a brand-new place where kids can safely learn the rules of the road before navigating real traffic.
The region’s first-ever Traffic Garden has officially opened at Santaro Park in the Town of Onondaga. Designed as an interactive outdoor classroom, the space allows children to practice walking, biking and understanding traffic signs in a realistic, but completely safe, environment.
What Is a Traffic Garden?
Unlike a traditional playground, a Traffic Garden is built to resemble a miniature roadway.
Children will find child-sized streets, intersections, crosswalks, traffic signals and pavement markings that mirror what they see every day. The goal is to help kids develop safe habits as pedestrians and bicyclists before sharing the road with cars…