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What is a traffic playground?
Traffic playgrounds are fun, kid-sized versions of real streets. Designed to look like a mini version of Gresham’s streets and neighborhoods. These playgrounds give kids (and adults) a safe place to walk, bike and roll, without any cars around.
Traffic playgrounds include:
- Travel lanes
- Crosswalks
- Stop signs
- Pretend places like parks, shops and schools.
Bring your feet, your wheels, your friends, and your imagination!
- Traffic Playground Locations
- Traffic Skills to Practice
Pat Pfeifer Park
424 NE 172nd Ave.
Visit Gresham’s first traffic playground for a place to play and practice road safety on the painted pavement.
Davis Park
Thanks to Metro funding, the City installed its first permanent traffic playground. The path is painted to look like parts of a real street so people can practice their skills. Reach out to City staff if you would like to host a traffic safety event at the park.
Safety tips
Always wear a helmet when riding bikes, scooters, and skateboards!
For people walking
- Pedestrians have the right-of-way. But always look both ways before crossing in the crosswalk.
- Make eye contact. Give people on wheels time to stop for you before entering the crosswalk.
For bicycles, scooters and wheelchairs
- Stop at stop sings. Look left, right, and left again before going.
- Always ride on the right side of the road.
- Look for people in the crosswalk and let them cross before you.
- Practice using hand signals to show which way you're going.
Activity ideas
- Be a bus or MAX driver or transit rider. Where will you go in the neighborhood?
- Practice bike hand signals. How steady can you ride with one hand? How far?
- Have a neighborhood scavenger hunt. Pick different locations around the traffic playground (school, grocery store, etc.) and use proper rules of the road to get there.
- Right-of-way game. Choose who will be a pedestrian, emergency vehicle or regular vehicle and follow the rules of the road accordingly. Everyone yields for emergency vehicles; regular vehicles yield to pedestrians. Change up who gets to play each role.
- Make believe. Just have fun!
Contact
Safe Routes to School coordinators Carly.Rice@GreshamOregon.gov or Jay.Higgins@GreshamOregon.gov.