Head's plea for crossing (From The Oxford Times)

• "The head cannot be blamed for the actions of the student or the car driver. Large numbers of people exiting any venue are a risk and school students are more of a risk.
  
  The council/s have made no effort to reduce speeds or provide any form of traffic claming, and that is highly irresponsible.
  
  The road simply must be made safer to reduce the extent of any future inevitable clashes between vehicles and people.
  
  The 'driver has a right' brigade here are shortsighted, selfish anti-community and self-important.
  
  Driving at 20 mph along the length of that road would hardly cost any time to anyone but might considerably reduce the risk of serious harm to many.
  
  Another road that needs a serious re-speeding down to 20 mph is Barrow Road, where drivers refuse to acknowledge the dangers of such a narrow and busy road.
  
  There are new and very clever speed bumps being developed that only assault the senses of those drivers who go over them too fast. Hit them at the designated speed and they are practically invisible but hit them too fast and you know about it.
  
  The days of lumps of bitumen and gravel being thrown down as a speed hump are gone, and it's high time some innovative road designer got reading the research.
  
  The school speed zones mentioned above are also in use in Australia, at 40 kph but there are moves afoot to reduce that to 30 kph or 20 mph. They operate from 7.30 am to 9.00 am and 2.30 pm to 4.00 pm during school time, not holidays or weekends.
  
  That is a halfway decent solution, and in the case of Larkmead should extend all along Faringdon Road from Abingdon School on the corner to past St. Helens and Larkmead, down to Barrow Road.
  
  You can also fit speed signs that flash on when drivers exceed the designated speed, warning them and all around of their outcast status - no reason not to attach a speed camera to it and a fine to the drivers is there?
  
  This demand from drivers to continue their reckless anti-social behaviour is quite extraordinary, particularly when coupled with the inability to take any responsibility for their driving, blaming everything on everyone else.
  
  Time to grow up."
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