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ACT Transport Minister John Hargreaves has rejected a call from the NRMA to install flashing speed signs on School Zones. These signs - featuring a circle of bright red LED lights around orange LEDs designating the 40kph speed limit - are commonplace in NSW and other areas, and prove far more effective than static signs.

But Minister Hargreaves says road conditions in ACT are somehow different from other parts of Australia...

His reasoning was that ACT's school zones are in effect from 8am to 4pm, as opposed to set morning and afternoon periods only elsewhere.

It's reasoning that beggars belief. The reality is that driving past static signs every day, you come to ignore them, miss them. Then there's all the people who don't have children at school, so don't necessarily know a school day from another...

There's no way to miss the flashing school signs.

And the need for them is underlined by the fact that there have already been 58 infringements since the school term started - half over 15kph above the 40kph limit.

With a budget surplus that keeps surprising the ACT Government by growing, surely the cost of installing these flashing signs would be a sound investment?

Please reconsider Minister.

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