Children walking to school cross intersections where parked cars block sightlines at the corner. “Daylighting” — keeping the 20 feet before a crosswalk clear of parked vehicles — is one of the cheapest safety treatments a city can deploy, and several states now require it by statute.
This example petition asks the council to adopt a schedule for treating school-adjacent intersections: paint and bollards first, then capital work where speeds are highest. It also asks for a public map so residents can see which intersections are scheduled and which are not.
Use it as a template. Replace the city, the specific intersections, and the funding source with the facts in your own community, and attach your city’s own crash data from its open-data portal.