Would flashing lights on school speed zone signs during their hours of operation help school safety?
Thursday, 07 May 2009 14:25
One local resident wrote to me having observed that in some jurisdictions flashing lights are attached to school speed zones during the hours that the speed reduction is in force to draw drivers attention to it.
I have attached the response from the Queensland Department of Transport. No doubt you will agree it is a disappointing response that the State Government has flicked responsibility to one of Queensland’s 90 or so local governments. School speed zones on State controlled roads such as Moggill Road and Mt Crosby Road are the responsibility of the State Government not of the local authority. Click here to read the response.Nevertheless many people contact me with concerns about safety around our schools. We have conducted a very active campaign to seek a school speed zone for the schools in central Kenmore.
Queensland has a very active road safety research body based at QUT called CARRS-Q. I have forwarded this constituent’s suggestion to the experts to see if somebody in the world has researched such a scheme and whether there is any research information that would support it as delivering an improvement to safety.
I very much appreciate it when local residents bring forward thoughtful and positive ideas. Any further responses I will post on the website.