School Zone Santa .Com

A chap came up to me after I'd set up my sign and he had been caught also. He said he was sure was sure that he hadn't been speeding.
"Get the photo" I said.
"I can't afford to, I'm a pensioner."

A young mother carrying a toddler who was wide eyed at seeing santa told me her dad had been caught three times.

2 other drivers stopped and had also been booked.

How many are there?

Have a look at what some are saying about their experiences at Beverly Hills on

http://au.messages.yahoo.com/news/national-news/40122?p=1

I've spoken to some pretty cranky drivers who think the set up a Beverly hills is, to put it in printable language ...BAD.

Cranky drivers vote, but who cares the next state election is three and a half years away.

With more and more cameras being installed,like the one in trees at the Kingsway Miranda, I wonder if it will ever get like it is in England.

To see what frustrated drivers do to speed cameras in England, click on http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2a.htm

This sign is near the start of the zone heading South
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This sign was closer to the danger zone .
Note the road is going downhill.
One eye on the road one on the speedo

This is about 100 meters away from the camera and with me in my santa suit waving down any driver still driving at an excessive speed.

This is the school zone sign I've said is needed to be larger and to have flashing lights, to help remind or inform drivers that even though this is nowhere near a school, it is a school zone.

Sorry it's not too clear , it is in real life.
It reads

"Flashing lights here please mr Eric!"

I'll take a close up tomorrow.

Some drivers don't believe there is even a speed camera there, so here is photo of post behind which the south camera is mounted, overlooking the pedestrian lights

and a page I posted earlier

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On Monday 3 Sept I had a look at the new variable speed camera at the school zone on King Georges Rd Beverly Hills.

I was there from 8.10 till 9.10am and even though there is a large computor warning sign on a trailer at he start of the school zone warning drivers about the 24 hr variable speed camera, I counted the south bound camera flash go off at least 30 times.

It seems that drivers don't realize that the whole of the shopping strip is a school zone.

The drivers on the other side of the road are more aware of the school zone because they have a second flashing light unit.

The EXTRA very helpful centre median flashing light unit.

The speed camera is on the left near the (hard to see) parked van.

The road slopes down all the way to this speed camera

so it's on the brakes to keep it at 40.

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BUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD IS A DIFFERENT MATTER

There are flashing lights way back up King Georges Rd at the school, but no middle median flashing light unit at the shops like the one across the road and the cars coming out of busy side roads Morgan St and Tooronga St from Kingsgrove and Bexly North .....are on their own.

The road once again also slopes all the way to the speed camera.

The dark car in the kerb lane was definately exceeding 40 klmh and was snapped by the neatly mounted camera and light.

Note the differant style of camera and light units

By the way there is a fence down the centre of part of the road, high planter boxes down another section a pedestrian over bridge, pedestrian lights and other light controlled intersections.

A lot of drivers unfamiliar with the area simply don't realize that this is ALL a school zone.

If a flashing light unit was added to the school zone sign on the centre median, it would help make a lot more drivers aware.

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