Nearly 3000 fines have been dished out to motorists continuing to disobey new traffic-free zones set up around schools in the Medway Towns.
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00:00It's a morning school run in Medway, but taking the wrong turn down this street at the wrong time
00:05you'll end up with a fine of up to £70.
00:08The same goes for this street and five others across the authority. Earlier this year the council introduced school streets in a bid to
00:16make roads safer.
00:17But we found many vehicles are entering the restricted areas. In the second week of September
00:23the number of fines increased as the six-month grace period ended, although the number is
00:29starting to drop once more. The highest amount of fines on the roads around Burns Oak Primary, with an average of
00:35300 being issued a week, for schools on Richmond Road, which is a busy link road to Gillingham High Street.
00:43Now I've been speaking to a number of drivers who have been fined going down school streets.
00:47They say the signage going into one isn't all too obvious.
00:51Council themselves really need to be taking a proactive approach in engaging with residents, doing that market testing around what signs work and what
00:58don't, and where clearly they aren't working and there's significant amount of fines being issued, need to look at what measures they can put in place in order to mitigate them.