School Zone Santa .Com

In the Daily Telegraph Wed 15th

A jackpot of sorts. Two letters one below the other

and just below that letter was this

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I just found this on the inbox.
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Firstly a correction Simon, this site does not belong to Peter Olsen,he sent me, press releases and I post them just like yours.

So before you confuse me with Peter look through the Archives or look at the Category "about school zone santa" I have never built flashing lights I'm not that clever , I just waved my sign around to try and create some interest in solving the whole school zone bullshit.

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Mr Olsen,

I have read through your website and have heard of you as well through the media.

I think there are a few issues you have not mentioned in all your paragraphs of your own one sided bias writing. I would gladly bet you will not be prepared to put this letter on your website for your readers in full to perhaps see another NON PETER OLSEN side of the story.

You say your system is just as good as anyone elses lights / system, yet it fails, you have openly admitted that.

I am just confused as to how you think your so called flashing light system will be monitored after you have said there is no need for this in your latest posting.

In one paragraph you say how you were notified your lights were out,
please tell me and your readers, how were you notified? if not by an automatic back to base type signal
how are you going to monitor 22,000 lights as a system?

how will you maintain these 22,000 if you got the gig, same price $350 once off or is there a warranty of how long??

Considering the RTA have been doing this type of thing for many many years (sure they're not perfect, who is?), as you may or may not know the RTA is considered one of the best world wide traffic monitoring systems including all traffic lights, with more than 70 other major cities world wide have adopted the same system - SCATS.

Please tell me what monitoring system you may employ that will be better or at least equal to the RTA's that the other 70 cities worldwide employs?

As far as i have read the first 100 sites are to be trialled in NSW. The RTA seem to be trialling various systems / flashing light displays in different type areas to see what will work best in each area. They have been very public in saying so.

How are your flashing lights going to be seen on the side of the road when there is a bus or truck next to a car if you were in the car?

(maybe not too many of your readers) Know you have a very bias attitude to your own system quite clearly to me anyway, and furthermore seem quite angry at the fact you have not been completely given the gig as yet.

The tender process is a long one as obviously many systems and lighting poles need to be tested, checked and seen by the public, along with road statistics taken which is what is happening now as far as i know. THe winner/s of this tender will be asked to provide all of the schools in NSW with flashing lights and or a system of some sort.

Also, what would happen if someone decided that it was actually quite silly to have a school zone after 9am when kids are in school? why not maybe change it to 7:30 - 9am, I personally have seen many more kids on the road at 7:40am rather than 9:15am. The old signs would have to be thrown out, wouldn't they? What would you do then?

As you can see i am quote passionate about this subject too as i have also been booked in 3 school zones NOT SEEING the signs especially when i travel in areas i don't normally travel.
I have seen your flashing light system and to be perfectly honest it is very possible for people to miss them, especially as you admitted they haven;t always worked. Easy to manage when you have 3 or 4 sites, not so when it is 22,000.

Also, you asked someone to write in to explain why the signs on Taren Point Rd weren't working yesterday. Isn't it possible that they had the same problem you did with something possibly tripping power from ENERGY AUSTRALIA similar to the RTA faulty transformer. You blamed the RTA in your paragraphs with extreme pace. I think it is interesting how you can blame the RTA for your owngear you were trying to flog - did the RTA manufacture the said faulty transformer? - i think not.

All in all I look forward to your answers / reply to my questions. Please answer on your website so all can see, both my questions and your answers.

Simon.

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Well I've just read through your welcome comments and I'll ring Peter in the morning, if he hasn't seen it and I'm sure he will give a response.

I asked the question as to why it took so long to fix the Taren Pt lights.

If I was from the Roads ministers office and only a month or so out from an election, and because so many people have been caught out at school zones, and cranky drivers make cranky voters, I'd make sure that they were back in operation quick smart.

It amazes me that after all the negative publicity concerning school zones and the medias plea for flashing lights that the RTA has spent $7.2 million on 100 sites and nobody asks what it would cost to equip all the schools.

Then after only two weeks two sets at different schools have failed and the Police set up a speed camera downstream of a non operating flashing unit, and that's not a story?

I asked yesterday why the Taren Point lights weren't working, and you suggest Simon, that maybe it has something to do with Energy Australia as was the case with Peter' lights, but unless all the fancy RTA approved lights I've seen, are mains powered as well as well as solar, I can't see that being the problem.

If they are, maybe they're overpowered.