The Reno Police Department issued 180 traffic tickets and nearly 50 warnings over the course of recent school zone pedestrian safety operations.
The operations were carried out with the help of a grant from the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety and ran from August 11 to September 18, according to a release from the City of Reno.
Officers focused their efforts in active school zones, looking for drivers and pedestrians who were violating laws that improve pedestrian safety.
Nevada state law requires pedestrians to use sidewalks, crosswalks, and pedestrian bridges and obey all traffic signs and signals. If there is no sidewalk, pedestrians are supposed to walk on the left side of the street, facing traffic.
Drivers must yield to pedestrians and avoid passing vehicles that are stopped for pedestrians.
