Road safety around schools
Why speed humps and roadside barriers are a godsend to West Auckland school students
By Joseph Los'e
Every school day between 3pm and 3.30pm, more than 2300 students leave one of the six schools within an 800m radius in Kelston.
The traffic for St Leonards Road School, Kelston Primary, Kelston Intermediate, Kelston Boys’, Kelston Girls’ and Kelston Deaf Education Centre, is bumper-to-bumper from 2.30pm-4pm as parents scramble for parking to pick up their children and students start to make their way home.
Add three childcare centres and the potential for accidents is quite extreme.
Fortunately, Kelston is a suburb where units and homes can only go up two storeys, and most residents living in the quiet suburb still have the Kiwi quarter-acre dream.
The majority of students are Māori, Pasifika and Asian.
Article added: Thursday 16 May 2024
