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A iesson in school zones

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HERE’S a subject we've broached before bur at least one reader missed it.

Zones. Today PH reiterate the skinny on zones of the school and playground varicry. While most cavers can recall slogans fike “dawn to dusk” and “ori school days,” most rarely remember the wheres and wherefores of playground and sciieoot zones, As it turns out, a bit of lateral thinking is call that is required.

“! First of all, a zone must

i first be delineated. City enyi-

neers mark a zone by erecting signs on a certain streetside or collection of streetsides with cither: a) a yellow Playground sign showing a silhouctre of a young person in full-sprint stride chasing a ball; or b) a blue School sign with nwo young people of differing height walking slowly and mournfully to or from school.

Secondly, since these zones have a marked “beginning,” “which is where a daver of a

iNehicle first passes one of

“these signs, it must also have a distinctive “end,” which it does. The printed definition is found in the BC Regulations of the mighty Motor Vehicle " Act which irrevocably states “thae “the back of the sign assembly erected for the opposite direction of travel designates the end of the restricted zone.”

In other words, a driver is leaving a zone when that dri- ver passes the backside of another zone sign placed con- versely on the other side of the street tor people coming

yim or her.

Thirdly, it is important to note that the speed fimit in

‘either zone is not necessarily 30 km-h (19 m.p.h.), as many drivers assume and many more choose to ignore any- way.

The speed limit in a play- ground or school zone is exactly the same as the speed limit outside of the zone (usu- ally 50 km-h, or 3) m.p-h.) UNLESS a speed tab is affixed beneath the zone sign. The “tab” is invariably printed black on white, making it reg- ulatory (any read marking or sign printed black on white or “WHBE on black is regulatory}, and almost always read “30km-h.”

It is this tab which changes the speed limit. Get it? The zone signs mark the zone, the tabs tell us che speed limit in

~othegzone, No tab? Same speed limit

as everywhere else.

30km-h tab? Speed limit is 30an-h whilst in the zone (sometimes the tabs read “no

waGing” which means the ‘speed limit hasn't changed byt over raking other vehicles is restricted}.

Finally, a bit of clarity on the time limits of zones. It’s pretty simple really. Involves a bic of that lateral thinking I n@ntioned.

When can one expect peo- ole to be playing ina play- ground? Anytime, of course,

Wa

though fess fikely urter dark. This is wh round is consicered a zone tram dawn to dugk every single dav of the year. As jong as there is day- light ta burn, people -— espe- cially young people —— are wont to play. Days are getting longer this time of vear. It’s really very caveman: Sun in sks, go slow.

How about school zones? It’s been my observation that school kids have very litee desire to hang around the school yard on weekends (but if they do, engineers will usa ally change thar school zone into a playground zone ). However, kids oceasionally come to school early and

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