School Zone Santa .Com

Yesterday it was on the Kingsway at Woolaware, for the Liberal launch and this morning at my spot at Sylvania, for the morning peak.

Sitting in my van listening to the radio I notice that the ads already are over the top with Labor on about all the thousands of "front line workers" going to be sacked if Mr Debnam gets in.

A sad fact is that people will believe it.
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Well that was a silly thing to do yesterday, parking on the Kingsway when I should have been on Captain cook Drive, Oh Well,
thousands of vehicles do pass that way on any Sunday, so it wasn't a complete waste.
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I've tried to point out that the fact, that only 2 sets of lights were installed at the Kogarah school zone on the Princes Highway when there are 3 other busy roads feeding into it, requires answers from the roads minister.

Ask the thousands of drivers on those 3 other roads every day, if they think the problem at Kogarah is fixed.

Unless I'm totally misguided, I would think that the untold thousands of good drivers that have been caught out at school zones throughout NSW are important.

I ask the question to all and sundry,

"What do you do, when you suddenly realize that you're in the middle of a school zone?"

The usual answer is, "Siht, what's the time and how fast am I going?" (or words to that effect.)

Have you ever been booked?

Many of the people I ask have, or they know someone who has.

So after years of trials, denials, pie graphs, and media pressure the RTA have spent $7.2 million to install flashing lights at 100 schools, even putting up temporary ones to get the 100 sites up before the school year started.

That the lights started to fail after only two weeks of operation is a scandal when so much money has been spent, but then it's not unusual for the RTA to be involved in expensive failures.

The current roads minister also needs to explain why these expensive lights are faulty.

And no it's not because they are testing and trial ling these lights, they've done all that.

I would imagine that they are just too complicated and the more components the greater chance of malfunction.

All this money wasted and there are better and cheaper alternatives.