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I agree with school zones. Children may not pop out of the eather but there behaviour can be erratic and they may not think before they run. However the implimentation of the good idea is sometimes poor. There is a school nearby that has a boundary and gate facing onto a major road which therefore has a school speed zone. The problem is that the gate is not in use and all pupils enter and exit via the gate that opens onto a back street. I have never seen a pupil on the major road. Just 200m up the road another school backs onto the major road and again all the pupils enter and exit via a gate on a back street. This one doesn't have a school speed zone. Go figure.
There are a few school around here which were built some time ago and are situated on what are now busy roads, thus causing traffic conjestion on the major road. OK, that is a product of history. However at Albion Park they built a school facing onto an existing busy road and then put in the school zone. When they planned the new sub-division there was no good reason why the school couldn't be situated a few hundred metres off the main road thus not slowing through traffic. It was just thoughless planning.
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