Targeted enforcement on UW campus this month

If you travel to or through the University of Washington campus, take note: the University of Washington Police Department (UWPD) is initiating "an education and enforcement project focused on crosswalk and stop sign behavior" at W Stevens Way NE this month.

According to their press release, UWPD will be reminding people traveling along Stevens Way of the rules of the road, including: "yielding to people on foot, stopping and yielding at stop signs, obeying posted speed limits and crossing the street predictably and attentively." 

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Stevens Way (highlighted above) is part of the Burke-Gilman Trail detour. 

UWPD states, "it is very important that people on bikes and in cars remember to yield and use caution around people on foot – UW is a wonderful and busy walking environment." 

UWPD will begin enforcement - i.e. writing tickets - on Monday, Oct. 27. 

Our advice? Check your speed, follow traffic control devices and always give people walking the right of way.