Eastway Elementary Study

General Observations-Loading Process

 

• The children were all waiting in no particular order outside of the front doors of the school.
• The carpool line was very short.  Double lanes were utilized and there were three adults out in the middle of the active traffic directing the cars.
• The whole process seemed very chaotic.  Some parents would park in the carpool line and then get out of their cars and go pick up their children.  There didn’t seem to be any kind of organization to the whole process.  But it worked out alright because there weren’t very many kids who were being picked up by cars.
• No one escorted the kids to their parent’s cars.  There was no kind of safety patrol.
• There was a policeman standing at the corner of the adjacent street assisting kids and parents walking across to apartment buildings on the other side.
• There were a high number of walkers at this school.
• In the data collection, some cars left from faculty parking and drove through the bay area so they didn’t stop in the bay area to pick up a child.  This caused some of the recorded times to be slightly skewed.
• Some “walkers” were observed crossing active traffic in the bay area.  These areas did not appear to be designated cross walks
• Position 1 watch and the video time slow by 15 seconds from position 2 and 3.

 

General Observations-Queuing Process

 

• Hardly any queuing because cars were directed, by one of the assistants, to the adjoining parking at peak, to prevent spillage on Taylor St.

 

 

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