Traffic park

Traffic park

A traffic park or children's traffic park is a park in which children can learn the rules of the road.

Traffic parks are frequently created as an attraction within a larger park. They can be found in urban and in more rural areas.

Children of a minimum age (10 years old in some instances) are allowed to use bicycles or pedal-powered cars to navigate the streets and operate according to traffic laws. Typically, traffic parks are scaled-down versions of real street networks, with the lane and street-width proportional to the smaller vehicles. Often, they include operating traffic signals and during busy times, even staffed with traffic police.

One of the intentions of the traffic park is to improve awareness of traffic safety among school-aged children. Many traffic parks enable children to gain hands-on experience crossing streets and with bicycle or other pedestrian safety challenges in a highly controlled environment devoid of actual motor vehicles.

Traffic parks exist in a number of European and Asian countries.


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