Canada - With back to school upon us, Canadian Pacific Police Service (CPPS) is reminding parents, caregivers, and students to choose the safe path when walking to and from school and never trespass on railroad property.
 
During the week of 8-11 Sep 2015, CPPS will be running a "Back to School Rail Safety Campaign" across Canada and the U.S.
 
Officers will be paying extra attention to public railway crossings and railway rights-of-way in and around school zones during morning, lunch, and after-school hours, when young people are travelling to and from school.
 
"After a long summer, it's important to remind parents, caregivers, and students to be hyper-vigilant around railway property," said Ken Marchant, CP Police Chief.
 
"No matter your form of transportation, driving, walking, cycling, skateboarding, people need to know that any route that includes illegally crossing or using railway tracks is the wrong route."
 
The goal of this campaign is to help prevent railway crossing collisions and trespassing incidents by encouraging young people and adults to take safe routes to school and to be safe around railway operations.
 
Enforcement and education action will focus on high-risk behaviors such as drivers disobeying railway crossing signals, speeding, using electronic devices while driving, and offences involving school and transit buses, pedestrians and cyclists disobeying railway crossing signals, or failing to yield the right-of-way to approaching trains, and young people and adults trespassing on railway property.
 
Year-round, Operation Lifesaver, a safety partnership with railways and other safety groups, helps to deliver the message that when people "See Tracks" they should "Think Train".
 
Tell your neighbors that you're taking the rail safety pledge and choosing the safe route to school.
 
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