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29 Cited in Loma Linda Crosswalk Operation

San Bernardino Sheriff's deputies patrolled around schools for an hour and a half Wednesday morning.

Loma Linda Police officers sent a message to motorists Wednesday morning: School's back in session.

In an hour and a half, deputies patrolling around Bryn Mawr and Mission Elementary Schools cited 29 cars as part of a crosswalk awareness operation.

Held in conjunction with members of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Central Station Solution Oriented Policing Team, six deputies patrolled the area from 7 to 8:30 a.m., stopping 30 cars, and issuing 29 citations.

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It is part of what will be an ongoing effort to remind motorists that children will be using the crosswalks more and more to get back and forth to school, said Jodi Miller, public information officer with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.

"There's going to be more of these type of operations, because we want to make sure kids are able to get to and from school safely," she said. "It's a concern now that schools are back in session."

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She said that citations ranged from equipment violations to moving violations such as failure to completely stop to failure to yield to pedestrians.

"That's a significant number of citations in just an hour and a half," Miller said.

The problem of traffic around Mission Elementary was especially worrisome to members of the Loma Linda City Council, which had offered to exchange the land with Redlands Unified School District due to the high concentration of traffic in the area.

Mission's principal Dr. Tim Hoch said last week that some of the traffic problems would be avoided during the school's first year as "100 percent" of the students were scheduled to be bused to the campus.

And, since most of the students from Phase 1 are coming from the area west of Mountain View, there will not be a lot of students walking to the school.

Phase II of the school's opening, set for next year, will include the area directly around the school, which should see pedestrian traffic picking up. Hoch said there are plans for a pedestrian bridge over California Street to help ease some problems.

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