School Safety Boost

The St George area will share in a $5 million program to install school zone flashing lights where schools have multiple busy entrances, and have higher road safety risks.

The electorate of Oatley will see four additional sets of flashing lights installed to improve road safety for children travelling to and from school.

Schools in the electorate of Oatley that will receive and benefit from additional set of flashing lights are:

· St Declan’s Primary School on Arcadia Street

· Penshurst Public School on Arcadia Street

· Penshurst Girls High School (Georges River College) on Austral Street

· Peakhurst West Public School on Ogilvy Street

· Penshurst West Public School on Scott Street

“This will build on the NSW Government’s initial rollout which ensured all eligible schools across NSW had at least one set of flashing lights,” Mr Coure said.

“Children are some of our most vulnerable road users, and we know school zone flashing lights are an effective way of warning drivers and riders to slow down to improve safety.

“It’s great that this Government took the initiative to identify the most high risk schools to ensure they benefit from this extra level of protection.”

All eligible schools with multiple busy entrances were consulted in the process of selecting school zones for this program.

The new locations for school zone flashing lights were selected by a risk assessment model which takes into account a number of factors including approach speed, pedestrian numbers, traffic volumes, and heavy vehicle traffic volumes.

Flashing lights are funded through the Community Road Safety Fund, where all speed and red light camera fines go directly towards vital road safety programs.

School zones are enforced on government gazetted school days to ensure operation dates and times are consistent and easy to follow.