Salt Lake City leaders are bringing back an initiative aimed at helping students get to and from school safely when the new school year begins on Tuesday.
SALT LAKE CITY — The new school year kicks off in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. And city leaders want to make sure students get to and from class safely.
. And, as they did in 2022, Mendenhall and Brown announced its return on Thursday while standing in front of Backman Elementary School. In addition to speed enforcement, officers will be on bicycles and walking the routes students will be taking to make sure they get to school and get home without a problem.
During Thursday's press conference, speakers had to pause their comments a couple of times because of loud traffic noise or sirens from emergency vehicles along 600 North.
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