A Baker County crew — Dan McQuisten, right, Eli Witham and Jeff Martin — painted stripes on the blacktop at the Baker Early Learning Center on Oct. 29, 2022, for what will eventually be a traffic garden to help teach bicycle and pedestrian safety.
A Baker County crew — Dan McQuisten, right, Eli Witham and Jeff Martin — painted stripes on the blacktop at the Baker Early Learning Center on Oct. 29, 2022, for what will eventually be a traffic garden to help teach bicycle and pedestrian safety.
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The traffic garden at the Baker Early Learning Center will be striped to simulate a road and includes curves, straight sections and a round-about.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
The proposed design for a traffic garden at the Baker Early Learning Center.
On a day not long before a significant snow storm hit Baker City, a crew from Baker County laid down lines that will eventually be a traffic garden at the Baker Early Learning Center.
“A traffic garden, sometimes called a traffic playground, is a network of connected streets with traffic features that is free of motorized vehicles,” said Billie-Jo Nickens, traffic safety coordinator with the Oregon Department of Transportation. “The scope of the project is to enhance bike and pedestrian safety programming in Baker County for children and families.”
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