School Zone Santa .Com

I was told that a politician had told the media that he would consider the idea of wheel clamping the vehicles repeat driving offenders at their homes, which sounds a bit like the idea I wrote about in the "P" plate category.
I rang the opposition minister of transport's office to see if they had mentioned it.
No it wasn't them.

I talked about their promise of installing flashing lights at school zone when they win the next election.
Well they would have to look into the best way of doing it.
I suppose that would mean trials, surveys ,commitees,independent evaluations,and when the total cost is realized, deferrment with a "circumstances have changed and it was Labor that did it anyway" explaination.

One question I was asked ,by the minister's office was "Why are you doing this?"

"Because I don't think what is happening at school zones now isn't
fair." I told him.

Does there always have to be an angle or agenda?

The mother of a young bloke, Brendon who I did some work for this morning has been caught-out at the Gymea school zone camera.
She's a good driver and hadn't been booked for years.

That's why I do the whole school zone santa thing..

I don't care who fixes the school zone mess as long as some one does it

Mr Paul Gibson MP was mentioned in an article about drivers cars being confiscated for excessive speeding.
So I rang him and mentioned to him my idea on wheel-clamping cars see (The"P" Plate Driver Crisis. category.

I also asked him what was happening with the Kogarah school zone because he was reported in the St George and Sutherland Shire Leader 23/11/04 as saying "Something was wrong with the site and it should be reviewed"
He told me he didn't know about the Kogarah school zone, but the school zones around Blacktown worked OK. (or words to that effect)

Kogarah MP Ms Cherie Burton in the (St George and Southern shire leader 15/3/05) called for the removal of the cameras and in the same article Mr Costa (the then roads minister) said that "this is a classic example of a good policy where we loose commonsense"

I e-maied Mr Costa's office

(When I said the media has "virtually ignored" I meant the TV , the Leader and the Telegraph did give coverage)

Maybe Holly misplaced my e-mail because nothing has changed at Kogarah and I never recieved a reply.

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The cost of having Flashing lights (the sort that the RTA are trialing)at all "school zone signs" (there are even school zones where there are no schools)that are needed around schools to cover the legal angle if an infringment notice is challenged in court would be totally prohibitive.

To cover all bases to prevent cases being dismissed in court and created a precedent would be near impossible.
And smarties will always try to find legal loopholes

I think the only solution would be to install simple "advisary" warning lights on the school zone signs on the main traffic roads around schools, to help drivers, like the ones used to warn drivers of traffic lights just over the crest of a hill.

These lights work well and would be cheap compared to the fancy "green" solar powered models with their solar collectors, batteries etc that the RTA has used.
Why use a rolls when a holden does the same job.

They would have a suitable timer and the lights could also be switched on at different times from the school when children get on buses for excursions etc.

There is no need for hundreds of millions to be spent on overengineered hardware (and the costly maintenance needed) just to make drivers aware of school times.

When the lights are flashing you slow down to 40 or less, if needed and your normal safe speed if the lights are off.

Simple, and come down hard on the drivers that don't