The City of Windsor is working towards doing what it can to improve safety in neighbourhoods with schools.
A city wide "school neighbourhood policy" was presented at Tuesday night's meeting of the Environment Transportation and Public Safety standing committee.
Proposed changes include more signage, sending home literature and possibly creating more school bus loading zones and sidewalks.
Director of Operations for the City of Windsor, Dwayne Dawson says a lot of the problems arise because of the number of kids being driven to school.
He says a lot of parents are choosing to drive their kids to school when it may not always be necessary.
"There are so many vehicles that are attending the school both at the pick up time and the drop off time. It's just overwhelming the streets and the parking areas which in general leads to congestion and then some safety concerns with the people that are actually trying to get down those streets," says Dawson.
Dawson adds that the majority of concerns come from people who live near schools, saying "they find that people parking in their driveways, blocking their driveways, idling in front of their homes, just a lot of general congestion which plugs up their street."
As a result of multiple complaints, city by-law enforcement performed a parking enforcement blitz around Vincent Massey High School Wednesday morning.
35 tickets were issued during the blitz that targeted illegal parking and stopping.
A major cost of the proposal would be adding active signage with flashing lights with total estimated cost of the signage being $1.8-million.
If council approves the policy, it will be referred to 2017 budget deliberations.
Dawson encourages people to contact 3-1-1 if they have concerns about traffic around schools.
Story by AM800 News reporter Kristylee Varley