These warning signs are designed to establish 20 mph traffic calming at critical periods for child safety around the beginning and end of the school day without disrupting traffic at other times.
My picture shows the set of warning lights in Claypotts Road, close to Eastern Primary School and Grove Academy. They were still flashing at 09:15pm last night. There are also similar problems with the lights at Forthill Primary School.
Clearly this set of lights has not turned off after the pupils have left in the afternoon. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of such signage is diluted when they operate at the wrong times.
In response to my writing to the Transportation Department of the Council I have received the following response from the Street Lighting Partnership:
"The project to convert the signs so that they can be controlled from a central point and so we can harmonise with term times has hit a few technical problems which has resulted in some signs operating 24hrs. Work is continuing to get the remaining signs which are not working correctly, on line."
I have been reassured that these unfortunate technical issues should have been resolved by the end of next week.
