LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — The Clark County School District plans to identify “hotspots” that need pedestrian safety improvements as County leaders approved funding for some school crosswalk changes.

FOX5 has learned commissioners approved $2 million for pedestrian or school flasher systems outside parks or schools as part of an allocation from the County Capital Projects Fund .

Two intersections outside schools will get flasher systems, according to County officials: Buffalo Drive and Viking Road outside Spring Valley High School, and Jimmy Durante Boulevard and Flamingo Road by Cynthia Cunningham Elementary.

Both these schools are along major Las Vegas Valley thoroughfares.

According to the UNLV Traffic Safety Coalition, in the 2024-2025 school year, county data showed two pedestrians

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