Will “Crossing Tender” be Automated?

Core Skills & Abilities

• Inform drivers of detour routes through construction sites.

• Direct or escort pedestrians across streets, stopping traffic, as necessary.

• Discuss traffic routing plans and control-point locations with superiors.

• Learn the location and purpose of street traffic signs within assigned patrol areas.

• Monitor traffic flow to locate safe gaps through which pedestrians can cross streets.

• Stop speeding vehicles to warn drivers of traffic laws.

• Guide or control vehicular or pedestrian traffic at such places as street and railroad crossings and construction sites.

• Communicate traffic and crossing rules and other information to students and adults.

• Distribute traffic control signs and markers at designated points.

• Direct traffic movement or warn of hazards, using signs, flags, lanterns, and hand signals.

• Report unsafe behavior of children to school officials.

• Record license numbers of vehicles disregarding traffic signals, and report infractions to appropriate authorities.