A primary school has dismissed an Adelaide City Council proposal to upgrade a nearby side-street \u2013 saying there\u2019s a far more pressing need to fix an \u201cunsafe\u201d school crossing and establish a kiss-and-drop zone.<\/p>\n
The blunt feedback from North Adelaide Primary School (NAPS) was given at a council committee meeting on Tuesday, in response to a huge suite of road safety upgrades proposed for all 12 schools in the city council area. <\/p>\n
The suite includes pedestrian crossing upgrades, school street signs, and new 25km\/h speed zones near eight schools.<\/p>\n
Two of the speed limit changes are already approved by the government \u2013 on Tynte St around NAPS and Sturt St around Sturt St Community School.<\/p>\n
A proposal to upgrade two intersections at Margaret St, a small side-street, was criticised by school representative Ben Walters, who told the council committee: \u201cWe were told what our priorities were, we disagreed with those.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI would take issue with any treatments of Margaret St,\u201d Mr Walters said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d actually do work on the existing crossing on Gover St \u2013 that crossing is unsafe. We still see cars (speeding through the crossing) \u2026 that\u2019s not okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also said a much-needed kiss-and-drop zone would be inexpensive and easy to set up by installing signage.<\/p>\n
Kate Vukmanovic, mother of NAPS students Lucy and Rosie, told The Advertiser cars \u201ctend not to notice the speed signs and they come straight through\u201d the crossing at Gover St.<\/p>\n
Another parent, who requested anonymity, said cars regularly \u201cwent flying\u201d through the crossing and he had witnessed \u201ca lot of dodgy s**t around here\u201d.<\/p>\n
Parent Tanya Rozalakis backed the push for a kiss-and-drop, saying she had \u201ccircled around\u201d the school multiple times on Wednesday afternoon without finding a spot, admitting she eventually chose \u201csomewhere I shouldn\u2019t be parking\u201d. <\/p>\n
A representative of Adelaide High School named Jim, also present at Tuesday\u2019s meeting, slammed the council for proposing an intersection upgrade near his school should be a lower priority, subject to future funding commitments. <\/p>\n
He said the West Tce and Currie St intersection was not designed to accommodate the school\u2019s 1800 students, forcing the school to stagger student dismissal times because it was not safe for all students to exit at the same time. <\/p>\n
Adelaide City Council city infrastructure director Tom McCready said the council was focusing on measures that could be \u201cimplemented quickly\u201d to improve safety.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know there\u2019s still work to be done on a range of projects. We will continue to work with schools and the state government,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A primary school has dismissed an Adelaide City Council proposal to upgrade a nearby side-street \u2013 saying there\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62889,62868,44937,62879,62864,62875,62876,62899,62860,62857,38151,62867,62895,62892,52231,39612,52735,62847,42435,395,5639,62887,62878,40351,62894,50405,62888,62855,62863,62890,62900,2331,18918,62866,24480,62853,62877,62869,62849,62882,55738,60839,23971,62896,62885,62873,41125,62880,17153,62902,8173,62883,62898,62865,62901,62904,62858,5264,62851,62886,39375,12333,62854,968,62881,62861,62852,972,62884,62874,62872,62891,62893,62897,38322,62856,6145,62859,23380,39111,45688,37881,62850,62871,40686,62848,62862,36985,62903,62870,22441,17331],"class_list":["post-58585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-parent-tanya-rozalakis","tag-s-1800-students","tag-s-meeting","tag-s-proposed-safety-upgrades","tag-a-council-committee-meeting","tag-a-far-more-pressing-need","tag-a-far-more-real","tag-a-huge-suite","tag-a-kiss-and-drop","tag-a-kiss-and-drop-zone","tag-a-lot","tag-a-lower-priority","tag-a-much-needed-kiss-and-drop-zone","tag-a-nearby-side-street","tag-a-primary-school","tag-a-range","tag-a-representative","tag-a-small-side-street","tag-a-spot","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-city-council","tag-adelaide-city-council-city-infrastructure-director-tom-mccready","tag-adelaide-high-school","tag-afternoon","tag-all-12-schools","tag-all-students","tag-an-unsafe-school","tag-an-adelaide-city-council-proposal","tag-an-intersection-upgrade","tag-anonymity","tag-any-treatments","tag-cars","tag-city-council","tag-crossing","tag-dangerous-problem","tag-dodgy-st","tag-eight-schools-two","tag-future-funding-commitments","tag-gover-st","tag-gover-st-another-parent","tag-his-school","tag-issue","tag-jim","tag-lucy-and-rosie","tag-major-schools","tag-margaret-st","tag-measures","tag-messenger-subscription-box-version-2he","tag-mother","tag-mr-walters","tag-multiple-times","tag-naps","tag-naps-and-sturt-st","tag-naps-students","tag-new-25km-h-speed-zones","tag-north-adelaide-primary-school","tag-our-priorities","tag-parents","tag-pedestrian-crossing-upgrades","tag-planned-upgrades","tag-projects","tag-response","tag-road-safety-upgrades","tag-safety","tag-safety-fix-plan","tag-school-representative-ben-walters","tag-school-street-signs","tag-schools","tag-signage-kate-vukmanovic","tag-student-dismissal-times","tag-sturt-st-community-school-a-proposal","tag-the-advertiser-cars","tag-the-blunt-feedback","tag-the-city-council-area","tag-the-council","tag-the-council-committee","tag-the-crossing","tag-the-existing-crossing","tag-the-government","tag-the-push","tag-the-same-time","tag-the-school","tag-the-speed-limit-changes","tag-the-speed-signs","tag-the-state-government","tag-the-suite","tag-the-west-tce-and-currie-st-intersection","tag-tuesday","tag-two-intersections","tag-tynte-st","tag-wednesday","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}