School's Open — Drive Carefully

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Schools, police, government agencies, corporations and individual AAA members participate in the program. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, along with and other high ranking officials from the Department of Motor Vehicles, State Education Department and State Police, issue proclamations supporting the campaign.

Posters are displayed inside and outside schools throughout the region. They are also displayed outdoors along school routes, and indoors in police precincts, store windows, firehouses, and libraries. Bumper stickers are displayed on police cars, school buses, sanitation trucks, taxis, commercial vehicles, and private vehicles.

Other organizations also pitch in. The state’s Department of Transportation displays the “School’s Open-Drive Carefully” slogan on its variable message signs along major highways, such as the Long Island Expressway. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority does the same at its toll facilities for bridges and tunnels. Posters are on display at all motor vehicle offices statewide, and the Port Authority displays posters at its tollbooths.

AAA New York will distribute over 4,100 posters and 14,000 bumper stickers in approximately 170 communities, including New York City. AAA clubs will distribute statewide, more than 4,500 posters and nearly 23,000 bumper stickers.

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