School Zone Santa .Com

This morning after doing a small job in Gymea, I had some spare time so I parked the sign at Port Hacking and the Hwy at 8.30am and at 9.15 I headed off to Mortdale

and guess what?

Another one of the new deluxe school zone flashing lights has developed a fault.

Well it lasted 3 weeks that's not bad for$36,000
I see now why the back to base fault reporter is necessary for these systems

This one is at the corner of King Georges Rd and the Princes Highway at Blakehurst heading towards Hurstville outside the big Chinese Resturant.

One of it's flashing lights was frozen in the on position and the other was off.They should be flashing alternatively of course.

This was at 9-20 am when I saw it.

I would think that if it was handled correctly, the State government and the RTA could be made look quite foolish, that after years of inaction concerning school zone lights, they go against the advice they paid for, and install lights that break down, as I've chronicled, after only 2 weeks into the school year.
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I had a look at the Blakehurst lights at 2-20pm this afternoon and the lights mentioned above were still stuck on (and off).

At 2.30 the Crystal car wash set did come on, but the faulty one across the way stayed the same.

What needs to happen is for the RTA to forget about these fancy over engineered units and go for the Olsen style of lights and double up on everything, if reliability is such an issue, and they I imagine would still cost under a thousand, even with four lights per sign.

But first we need a roads minister with the guts to reign in the fools at the RTA, with their 112 or so pages of pie graphs about school zone lights, and then we get the nonsense at Blakehurst and Taren Pt.

How many other of the 100 schools have lights that are faulty?

If it was sabotage at Taren Pt and Blakehurst shouldn't the RTA call the Police, and ask for witnesses to come forward.

Childrens lives could be at risk.

I'll bet RTA jobs aren't at risk, but they should be.