New van for youth transport school: Security for children in focus!

New van for youth transport school: Security for children in focus!

The Main-Kinzig-Kreis has taken an important step to promote traffic education for children by supporting the Gelnhausen Youth Transport School with a new van. The official handover of the vehicle, which is completely equipped for missions at primary schools, took place by the district deputy Jannik Marquart. Together with numerous traffic signs, bicycles and pylons, the new transporter will represent an indispensable tool for traffic education, which is crucial for the safety of young road users.

The investment amount of almost 69,000 euros was applied for the replacement of the old van. Marquart emphasized the importance of traffic education, which ensures that children learn to move responsibly in road traffic and to understand the importance of traffic signs. This is particularly important in the fourth school year, where the training of children in dealing with the bicycle is an integral part of the curriculum.

The role of the new van

Yvonne Catapano, which is responsible for 35 primary schools in the district, expressed its joy about the new possibilities that the van offers. With sufficient space for exercise materials and bicycles, even more children can actively take part in traffic education. After a successful examination, the children receive a bicycle driver's license, which is an additional incentive to take traffic safety seriously.

also Heinz Rieth and Catapano expressed their satisfaction with the purchase and wished the team of the youth traffic school a lot of fun with the new vehicle. The aim of the transport school remains to optimally prepare children for the challenges in road traffic and to lay a sustainable foundation for safe traffic behavior.

traffic education as a task for society as a whole

The importance of traffic education is also highly assessed in other regions, such as in Berlin. There, youth traffic schools are active at 25 locations and develop into competence centers for mobility formation. Your programs are not only aimed at children, but also includes offers for the whole family to prepare young road users for safe participation in road traffic as pedestrians or cyclists. The cycling certificate, which is exhibited by successful participants, is evidence of the quality of traffic training.

In addition, the traffic schools in Berlin work closely with police traffic safety advisors. These collaborations are part of the comprehensive traffic safety program that aims to individually support older drivers and people with disabilities.

The Kultusministerkonferenz (KMK) also emphasizes that mobility and traffic education is a fundamental educational and educational task of the schools. The updated recommendations from 2012 create a connection between classic traffic education and modern approaches that take into account climate protection and sustainable mobility. This also includes the promotion of the independent mobility of pupils who have to be taken seriously as road users.

Overall, it can be said that the investment in traffic education not only benefits the individual students, but also contributes to increasing the general level of safety in road traffic and lying the foundation for responsible mobility of the coming generations.