Transport minister Anthony Loke has said that there are plans to expand the Safe School Zone initiative after a pilot programme involving 14 schools nationwide, reports the Malay Mail. The project involves traffic-calming measures like speed humps, road furniture and special road designs around schools.
“One of the key initiatives is the Safe School Zone pilot project, which is currently being implemented in 14 schools nationwide. This year, we intend to expand the programme to more schools,” he said, adding that many of Malaysia’s over 10,000 schools are located along busy federal and state roads.
“As such, interventions are necessary to create safer zones. A Safe School Zone involves a specially-designed environment outside the school. We install speed humps and traffic-calming measures to ensure vehicles slow down when passing schools. In these zones, the speed limit has been set at 30 km/h to enhance children’s safety.
“We also welcome support from the private sector. Establishing a Safe School Zone costs between RM200,000 and RM300,000 per school. As our funding is limited, we need additional support to expand the programme,” the transport minister said.
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Good starting point, for those who keep saying better to educate better to educate… educate ur bloody mind, all this while, there’s no educate? Instead of delaying and waiting for more issue, i think, to make every license more precious with more strict even at the beginning UNDANG examination. before they even touch the car!
School Zones need to restructure thier drop off zone, dont cause traffic jam.
this could be the safest for students and everyone.
starting 2027 we will see 6 years old kid going to school! Imagine parents and kids finding each other, such a mess, side parking and causing long jam.
otherwise, is there any road diversion with measure?
speed hump interval distance could be at least 20m, eqv to about 4 car park length.
As many of us know, speed bumps anywhere in Malaysia never work for motorcycles so I hope the relevant authorities would think of another way to curb this because as you probably have seen in viral videos that some of the cases do involve motorcyles and students.