School Zone Santa .Com

I read in the Telegraph last weekend that if a driver has not been booked for 10 years he/she can be let off with a warning. The catch is that you have to write in and tell the RTA, and as this "loop hole" is not well advertised, not many good drivers… more »

Has anyone read anything about the road users summit other than the larger fine for not keeping to the left? What about the "P" plate drivers ? School zones? Or was it all too hard. I emailed Mr Costa On the 22/2/04 about School zones and they going to… more »

Nothing to do with school zones but something that I noticed. I heard on the radio yesterday, that a student in the U.S. had shot dead 9 people and himself. His grandparents, a security guard at school a teacher and 5 students as well as injuring many… more »

If what the Telegraph has printed this morning is correct ,what hope does the average person out in the real world have? Taxpayers are forking out $17 million a year in salaries for public servants without official duties.(page 3 next to a picture of… more »

At 9.25am Thursday (17/3/05) I was on my spot on the eastern side slowing traffic when a driver called out from his van from the slow moving city bound traffic. I'd dressed up in my full school zone santa suit having decided that it was to be my last… more »

Reading the Leader story (15/3/05) again I see that Ms Burton said "it was ridiculous to have a school zone on a major highway" But I can't see it being very sensible to have major highway traffic speeding past students a metre away on a crowded… more »

The St George and Southern shire leader 15/3/05 has reported that after inspecting the kogarah school speed camera site with the local member Ms Burton( they forgot to invite me), Mr Costa conceded that Ms Burton had a case for having the speed cameras… more »

To create a little more interest Mrs Santa came along for this morning's school zone time. She was very well relieved. For those new to the web site, the reason for us being at the twin speed camera school zone /variable speed zone is simple. To try and… more »

This morning to get an idea of numbers I decided to let nature take it's course and count the number of flashes of the south bound camera during school zone time. It's easy for me to say I slowed this or that number of cars so I needed to see what… more »

This morning to get an idea of numbers I decided to let nature take it's course and count the number of flashes of the south bound camera during school zone time. One flash in 1 1/2 hrs when an ambulance drove south at speed ,with lights flashing and… more »

Not much to report on the kogarah front though Friday morning was a busy one. I taped a sheet of paper on the back of my sign and when I slowed a "speeding" car with a wave, I marked it down. After school zone time finished I had 88 vehicles marked as… more »

Random acts of kindness it appears. The idea was to slow down cars to get publicity and highlight the problems at school zones. Since school started this year we have slowed down to the legal speed hundreds of cars at the Kogarah school zone… more »

Ron is my offsider holding the fort when I can't make it. This morning I de robed further and went with just my civies and a santa hat and Sunnies. "Where's your suit?" was the comment from a passing truck. The kids on the way to school still said… more »

I was told by a person that I should, to be credible drop the santa thing and get help from corporations. A little bit difficult with the web site name as it is. The whole idea was to stand out, and it does. So I took off the beard and "where's your… more »

I did the morning shift and it was quite stressful the number of cars coming through at speed was silly especially after 9.0am. Why do they do it are they stupid or just don't realize what time it is? My daughter is off work sick and drove too fast this… more »

The RTA were very busy today giving the speed cameras at Kogarah a spruce up. I see on the news tonight that one of the Spit hill speed cameras WAS faulty. I thought it was the buses that were faulty. Something to do with heavy vehicles struggling… more »

Welcome new viewers Have a look and comments good or bad are most welcome. This morning a new santa' helper did the peak hour side. He told me that he did slow some law breakers who were endangering children. The southbound traffic seemed to be quite… more »

Among the people that accessed my web site today were people from the USA and China. Someone in China was looking at my words. I feel quite important. How do you say welcome in Chinese? Do they have variable speed zones in China? My friends at the RTA… more »