I wonder if it is just me who sees the face of a demon on your second picture Botach. True colours, or should that be Truvelo colours.....?
Just for the record, you say it's by a school. That's important!
So I would
not be opposed to it so much if it was on a timer and active
only when school kids are there. i.e. Arriving, at lunch time, leaving to go home and not active during school holidays.
But they don't!!!
It could ping me on Monday night at midnight coming back from dancing at Ceroc with absolutely
nothing or
no-one around and I would be done for speeding five mph over the limit because it is 'dangerous' –
more dangerous than doing five mph less when the kids are
actually there!
It's bullshit!(Sorry mods
I'm shooting from the hip tonight).
So once again, it has
absolutely nothing to do with
intelligent or
informed or
scientifically unbiased road safety
There are places on my way to work which don't have speed cameras, next to schools. So how can it be that kids are not rolled out on the tarmac like pastry because there is no Speed camera there?
They have what I believe is called a human being holding a large lollypop in a hi-viz jacket who
intelligently brings the traffic to a halt.
Of course the kids should also be able to differentiate between a good and bad time to step into the road but the poor things have other things on their minds, like listening to an MP3/4 player or chatting on their lovely phone dad bought them, so they simply don't have the time for anything else and their poor parents just don't have the time or brains to educate them like I was.
"Please help me nanny state! I don't know how to cross a road or be a responsible parent and the product of my loins needs protecting!"