College of Education and Human Development

The pop-up traffic garden at the Child Development Center on Mason's Fairfax Campus was a dry run for Mason research that will begin in late August at two Washington, D.C., public elementary schools.

The new traffic gardens at Neval Thomas and Maude E. Aiton elementary schools in Washington, D.C., are not really gardens at all—at least not in the traditional sense. They are mini streetscapes installed on the schools’ property to help educate preschool students on bicycle safety and rules of the road.