On 29 September, the Traffic Town was opened in Brzeźnik, next to the local School and Preschool Complex. The municipal authorities said: – The event was an opportunity to recall the rules of safe cycling, but above all – to have fun. Regardless of age.
As Roman Jaworski, deputy head of Bolesławiec municipality, Roman Jaworski pointed out, the Traffic Town is a place where children and young people will be able to learn traffic regulations and practise them in real-life situations, preparing, among other things, for the bicycle licence exam.
Bolesławiec municipality added:
Before cyclists took over the Town, the school choir and young dancers performed a short show for the invited guests. Finally, it was time for the students to get on their bicycles and demonstrate how to use the newly completed facility. At the same time, games and activities began on the Town’s surface, using the boards installed there. The latter lasted the longest and turned into competitions in individual categories.
The investment cost PLN 639,000. It included:
- a roadway (with one priority-equal intersection, one intersection with a subordinate road, one roundabout, one signal-controlled intersection, one traffic island, a roadway for practising so-called figure eights, pedestrian crossings, a road narrowing, a railway crossing and parking spaces);
- sidewalks and pedestrian crossings (including a signal-controlled crossing, a crossing without signals and a special crossing marked as a children’s crossing);
- road signs (vertical, horizontal and illuminated).