Channel 7 News (Sydney) Schoolzones FoI 090309

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Friday 9 March 2009
Over 99% of NSW Schoolzones Unsafe
New FoI Proves Most Schoolzones are Not Enforced and Unenforceable
NSW Police Cut 40 Mobile Speed Cameras to Zero The PCA recently received the results of its FoI regarding schoolzone speeding offences in 2007 and 2008. Specific offences for speeding in these zones commenced on 21 May 2007.




The Chairman of the PCA, Harold Scruby said: The data provided prove that the only primary schools where there is any effective enforcement is at the 74 locations where the RTA has installed fixed speed cameras. Police enforcement in the remaining 9,937 zones in NSW is virtually non-existent. In 2008, the fixed cameras booked an average of 2,054 motorists per location. In the same year, police only booked an average of 1.17 motorists in each of the remaining schoolzones. As the FoI proves, the chances of being booked by police in a NSW schoolzone are virtually nil:

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