Your Environment

Reducing vehicle speeds is a primary factor in maintaining the safety of your school zone. Drawing attention to posted speed limits and warning drivers when school children are present is an important part of keeping students safe and encouraging an environment that promotes walking and biking to school.

Your Challenge

Your budget is well defined and dollars must be spent wisely. While nothing is more important than the safety of students, the financial aspect of infrastructure improvements presents a limiting factor.

Your Solution

Installing with only a wrench and a screwdriver, Carmanah solar school zone flashing beacons provide an immediate and cost-effective safety improvement to school zone infrastructure. Operating free of the electrical grid and functioning for up to five years without scheduled maintenance, Carmanah solar beacons also significantly reduce long-term operational costs. Shown to decrease vehicle speeds in school zones by five to seven miles per hour by the Washington State Traffic Commission, flashing beacons are one of the most effective safety improvements a school zone can make.

Carmanah solar school zone flashing beacons are eligible for funding under the Safe Routes to School infrastructure funding program.