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Learning road safety in Nassau's kid-size 'town'
Photo credit: Newsday File, 2001 / Nelson Ching | Andrew Kohnken, 8, tries out the cars that are set up to teach the kids about traffic safety at Safety Town in Eisenhower Park.
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Safety Town through the years
The rules of the road are something that can't be learned in books - it takes practice.
That's the motive behind a Nassau County Police Department attempt to teach traffic safety awareness: a child-sized "Safety Town" built to one-third scale that includes paved streets with traffic signals, an overpass, tunnels and a railroad crossing. Since 1972, the 21-building village - located at Eisenhower...
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