Member for Hawkesbury Dominic Perrottet and Member for Riverstone Kevin Conolly said the Hawkesbury 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 Hawkesbury region will see additional sets of flashing lights installed to improve road safety for children travelling to and from school.
Schools in the Hawkesbury area that will receive an additional set of flashing lights are:
- Maraylya Public School via Boundary Road (Hawkesbury Electorate)
- Schofields Public School via Junction Road (Riverstone Electorate)
“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 Perrottet 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.”
Mr Conolly said 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.