School Zone Santa .Com

Even after all the years that NSW has had school zones, ordinary average drivers can not get used to them, and politicians from both sides have acknowledged that.

I have documented examples of media statement, letters I've sent and replies going back at least two years about school zones.

Type Ms Burton, in the sites search panel, (right hand column below "Categories") or Mr Costa or Paul Gibson, or nrma. for details, of talk but not much action.

Drivers rang talk back radio, wrote to news papers year after year complaining, finally just before an election, 100 school get flashing lights.

The RTA has even has had temporary ones installed, like the one one with the intermittant fault at the Blakehurst Crystal car wash, till they put up the overhead yard arm type there.

$7.2 million for 100 schools and there are around 4000 schools in NSW.

How much is that just to install them at all schools, and how much each year for maintenance?

Sets of these new Flashing lights at Blakehurst and Taren Pt have failed after only 2 weeks and I was told by an RTA worker and from another RTA source, that someone has been sabotaging the lights. See Sabotage two pages back.

So some schools will get them, and the police will pounce on unaware drivers at the rest.

How does that make it fair for drivers and safer for school children?

The Kogarah school zone with it's two speed cameras has had a flashing lights installed at either end (one set behind trees) on the Princes highway.

But the three other main feeder roads into this school zone, Rocky Pt Rd, President Ave, Regent St, and even South St, motorists have to fend for themselves.

So even though those two speed cameras caught 49.500 drivers in 2003 -2004 and they were fined $6.5 million, all the RTA could afford or thought was necessary are two sets of lights for a school zone nearly 1
klm long with all the other busy side roads feeding into it.

That's why I'm here to try and highlight this nonsense.

Too many people have contacted me over the last couple of years agreeing with me, that I feel to just to go away now, would be letting them and all the other average drivers down.

I've said all along I don't care who gets in, as long as they do the right thing for NSW., why I even voted for Bob Hawke.