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Not getting better
After a bit of shopping I headed home along The Kingsway Miranda, it was afternoon school zone time, and guess what?
The flashing lights on this large sign outside Miranda Fair weren't working.hello
I took the photo, drove about another 100 meters and
this sign also had non functioning flashing lights.
Across the road a bit further along The Kingsway, opposite University st. is this one
which hasn't worked since last Friday.
All these lights are less than 5 months old and as they are solar powered are INDEPENDANT.
Why were some school zone Lights working on Mothers Day and on Anzac Day??
$7.2 million for one hundred sites,
CURRRRCHING!!!!!
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This is what I wrote on the 3/5/07 "State of the Art"
Now I might be a little, how do I say ......."passionate" about school zones but I do not drive around checking on the flashing lights that are in the local area, that are some of the 100 sites installed at the cost of $7.2,million, but as I go to and from places where I work, I do take take care to slow down at school zones and do notice things.
On the way back from Hurstville this afternoon at 3.45pm, on King Georges Rd heading south after Terry St, I looked up and the Yard arm style flashing light was going, but missing part of the display.
I pulled over walked back with my trusty camera and the whole display was off and then came back on ...an intermittent fault, I think that's called.
You can see the unlit patch of display that I first noticed, and the whole display has failed in the top photo.
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There are only a few of these 100 flashing light sites that I see in the South and I have seen and have photos of these failures.
Feb 13
Feb 14... 3 units
Feb 16
Feb 22
Feb 24
April 24
May 3
How many of the other 100 are also failing and what does all this cost?
Not to mention that if these "state of the art" lights aren't working, they aren't warning.
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All that is needed at school zones, are simple BRIGHT flashing lights, on the school zone signs, not fancy over-engineered units made up of many parts which not only make them expensive, but as shown, unreliable.
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UPDATE Fri 5th
The light unit mentioned above appeared to be working as I drove under
it at 9.15 am this morning.
or maybe it was on it was on the working part of an intermittent fault cycle.
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As the RTA have increased the fines, at least the extra revenue should be for more lights and to repair the faulty ones.
Photos of the above earier faulty lights are back on the website on those days.shown.
This entry was posted on 24 May 2007 at 10:47 by hstephens and is filed under All.