Speeders in School Zones

[PHILBERT]

One time this kid was sitting IN the road with his book bag right smack in the middle of the road. He gave me a dirty look when I went around him like I had a problem or something.

OMG THAT JUST HAPPENED TO ME THE OTHER DAY EXACTLY LIKE THAT!

Just for others understanding he was NOT on the right shoulder of the road (that still would be bad) but he was sitting on the curb of the center median (it was a slither of concrete, there is no reason for this bozo to be their) anyway, with his legs stretched out and other crap strewn on the asphalt. And again with the pissed off look... well maybe because I came dam close to making him a cripple :P

Makes you wish you had a hummer H1. Just slowly pull up to the bookbag and flatten the thing.

What ever happened to the ol' "foot up the ass" correction method? OH!, that's right...It's illegal now and they know it. So now they have a license to be as big a smart@$$ as they want. Lawyers brought us to this! :x

[411]

So tell us the story, how did you get hit as a teenager?

A backstreet in my home town is a ''service'' street where kids play often. It is narrow , 2 cars can pass but with care . So we were a group age 9to12 , of 6 children playing ''police and prisonners '' , we split in 2 gangs , the ''bad'' and the ''good'' , so the bad try to escape a define perimeter made by chalk on the ''road''.

So during this car was passing closed by us , I did not see the car coming , so escaping the perimeter = the car was so close and I ran so close that my head hit the door handle . I was projected up , fall down = nose bleeding and a load of hurt.Hospital+x-ray=nothing broken. The car keept on rolling to his garage. Police was called afterward , the driver was found and asked by the police what happened? = he said he did even notice the shock on his car. This guy was passing everyday by this place. Accordingly , he knew kids were playing there often . No charge was put on the driver , in 1960 , ''car was still king of the road''.

Moral = any speed is dangerous when you pass close by a cluster of children , one should expect a child has unpredictable behavior.

20, and i fly by it everyday going anywhere from 45 to 65 depending on my mood. i always speed through it.

I do not love police enforcement made for the sake of money grab ,but neither appreciates speeder in a school zone . 10 seconds taken because of reduced speed are easily recovered when you hit the highways. I am not a saint just a driver with experience of both side of the fence : the pedestrian versus the driver.

I agree : Education + Common Sense = a better world.

[Road Warrior]

So tell us the story, how did you get hit as a teenager?

A backstreet in my home town is a ''service'' street where kids play often. It is narrow , 2 cars can pass but with care . So we were a group age 9to12 , of 6 children playing ''police and prisonners '' , we split in 2 gangs , the ''bad'' and the ''good'' , so the bad try to escape a define perimeter made by chalk on the ''road''.

So during this car was passing closed by us , I did not see the car coming , so escaping the perimeter = the car was so close and I ran so close that my head hit the door handle . I was projected up , fall down = nose bleeding and a load of hurt.Hospital+x-ray=nothing broken. The car keept on rolling to his garage. Police was called afterward , the driver was found and asked by the police what happened? = he said he did even notice the shock on his car. This guy was passing everyday by this place. Accordingly , he knew kids were playing there often . No charge was put on the driver , in 1960 , ''car was still king of the road''.

Moral = any speed is dangerous when you pass close by a cluster of children , one should expect a child has unpredictable behavior.

20, and i fly by it everyday going anywhere from 45 to 65 depending on my mood. i always speed through it.

I do not love police enforcement made for the sake of money grab ,but neither appreciates speeder in a school zone . 10 seconds taken because of reduced speed are easily recovered when you hit the highways. I am not a saint just a driver with experience of both side of the fence : the pedestrian versus the driver.

I agree : Education + Common Sense = a better world.

I'm ok with low speed limits in school zones, the main and only reason for that are the kids going to or coming back from school and, let's say, activity during school hours... but what about AFTER hours when school's light are all out or during the winter/spring/summer/holyday break??? They keep the same speed limit but no more kids around during those long periods... so, during these breaks what the low speed limits are really for??? To protect the building against any Al-Qaeda sudden attack :?: :roll:

[SmaartAasSaabr]

They are intended to only be on when school is around, I've seen a couple zones that had a sign "Maximum 30 Lun a Ven, 07H00 a 17H00 Sept a Juin" (Maximum 30, Mon-Fri, 7 AM - 5 PM Sept to June)

Or there is a boulevard running alongside a school in St.Laurent that has flashing lights when school is on, Max 30 - which IMO is way too slow (you got people going 80, 90!)

But the vast majority don't have that.

[stalker]

We have big signs here that state the speed limit is 40km/h and in operation between 8am and 930am and also 230pm to 4pm

[Road Warrior]

In ALL Greater Toronto Area 99% of school zones have the same speed limit, 40 kph, 365 days a year... just very, very few have 50 kph and flashing lights around the speed sign, when flashing speed limit is 40 kph... and cops are using all these zones a lot for speed traps regardless of kids in school or on vacation... kids and... the city budget...