Zed promises flashing... school zone signs

VYBerlinaV8_is_back said :

How about putting the speed cameras in school zones? People will get the message pretty quickly then.

Yup. Take every single camera which is currently on a long straight road with no turns, and put it out the front of a school and see what happens to speeding in school zones.

How about putting the speed cameras in school zones? People will get the message pretty quickly then.

I think School Zones should be reduced to 30km/h with a speed bump at the start of each sign. In Adelaide I think they are 20km/h, in some parts of Europe they are even lower

I think this is a good idea. I live on a school zone road and its very easy when leaving for work around 8 oclock to speed through there and not realise or vice versa on the way home.

Should change to the NSW hours as well. At least around primary schools.

I should learn to read the whole heading not just the first bit. The image of a Zed in a loosely belted trench coat freaked me out!

The lights are unnecessary.

Schools are pretty big, if you see one SLOW DOWN…… then think oh, it is after 4 or oh it is a weekend and continue on your merry way making sure your speed is at least 10 kms over the limit. 🙂

Sounds like a good, if expensive idea. We should then also put flashing lights on the speed camera vans and fixed speed cameras…

Interesting, me thinks this may be a way to also introduce the same hours for school zones in NSW, with the flashing lights. Between 8 – 9.30am and 2.30- 4pm. A bit silly to have the lights flashing for 8 hours on weekdays.

I live in a school zone, and I endorse this idea. Sure, flashing signage won’t make a lick of difference to malicious speeders, but for the absent-minded driver the in-your-face signage could be a life saving cue to slow down.

I’m not defending absent-minded drivers, but in reality the majority of us have accidentally forgotten to slow when entering a school zone at some time.

“Just this February alone, 95 drivers were caught speeding in school zones, around 16 per cent of all speeding cases that month,” Mr Seselja said today.

Another statistic that is totally useless and potentially misleading without knowing some more context such as a) What percentage of speed enforcement was carried out in those zones and b) What the relative traffic volumes through those zones are.

If, for example, half the cars having their speed checked are in school zones, I’d say only 16% of tickets being issued there suggested that people were doing far better at not speed there than anywhere else, and the money would be better spent elsewhere.

Lies, damn lies and context-less statistics.

Another idea implemented in South Australia some 30+ years ago, haha.