School Zone Santa .Com

A couple of pages back I discussed the failure of a couple of the new deluxe RTA flashing lights at Blakehurst.

Well it's happened again.

Yesterday afternoon Peter Olsen was showing someone from the road minister's office around to show him the inapropriate placing of some of the new flashing lights.

When they were at the flashers during the pm. school zone time on Taren Pt Rd near Captain Cook Drive, it so happens that both the North and South lights weren't working.

Oh dear!

You would think that there would have been some very testy phone calls telling the company(s) involved to get them fixed pronto, as soon as this chap as soon as Peter had finished showing around.

This the North bound light unit heading towards Capt. Cook bridge.

This is the non working South bound light.

I drove past them this morning and they still weren't going, nor for the afternoon school zone time.

Why weren't they fixed in 24 hours.

Are there others also playing up, and ours are on the "to do list"

Then to add insult to injury the Police set up a radar speed trap down the road from the non working overhead flashing light, for the school zone time this afternoon.

When I talked to one of the drivers pulled over, I was told to desist, and I could be charged with hindering a "Police Operation"

The Police officer told me was doing his job, and a good job they do.

I think this "Police operation" in the interest of good public relations, could have been better carried out at another school without blacked out, new, very expensive state of the art, back to base, flashing warning lights.

Just incidentaly in the time I was there from 3.30 to 4.00pm I did see one adult pedestrian on that side of the road,apart from the police and myself, let alone a vulnerable schoolchild.