Road Safety at EPS
Keeping our Kids Safe
Drop-off and pick-up rules exist to keep children, parents and carers safe and to minimise speed and traffic jams around schools. Drop-off and pick-up zones allow you to quickly drop off and pick up your children, creating a safe environment while keeping traffic moving.
These designated areas help to make school zones safe because:
- Children are dropped off and picked up close to the school’s entrance (so they do not need to cross any roads).
- They allow smaller children to remain secured in the car while school-age children are dropped off and picked up from school.
- They relieve traffic congestion around the school by ensuring cars do not park illegally.
- They reinforce road safety messages and safe passenger behaviour to parents and children.
How Do These Zones Work?
When Using a Drop-Off and Pick-Up Area You :
- Must use the area like a moving taxi rank.
- Need to move forward in the queue of vehicles to the signed area.
- Get out of your vehicle to quickly help your children get in and out safely, however, you must not walk away from your vehicle.
- Are only allowed 2 minutes in the signed area (if you take any longer you can be fined)—if your children are not ready to get straight into your vehicle at pick-up time, you will need to drive around the block and queue to enter the area again.
- Only let your children out once you have pulled into the signed area (it is dangerous to let them out while waiting in a queue).
- Should teach your children to look out for your vehicle and to get in quickly when you pull up.
- Do not park in the school drop off and pick up zone for longer periods and leave your vehicle.
Are you a safe driver in our school zone?
Do you drop the kids off and pick them up on the school side of the road in your school's designated drop-off and pick-up area?
Calling out to them from across the road is dangerous because they may run to you without checking the traffic.
Do you park further down the street and walk kids to the school gate to avoid traffic congestion near the school gates?
Do you get your kids out of the car using the 'safety door'? (kerbside of the road away from the traffic?)
Do you AVOID double parking at all costs to keep students safe in our school zone? We have all witnessed the dangerous driving that occurs in school zones.
Do you park correctly in the school drop-off and pick-up area and stay no longer than the 2-minute limit?
Walking to School Together
We have mapped the best ways to get to school safely. Our Better Moves School Program in collaboration with Moonee Valley improves safety, traffic and parking management and encourages walking, scooting and riding to school. Please check out the map below using the link.