25 Jul 2025

School bus driver slowing down speeding cars with DIY signs

From Checkpoint, 4:45 pm on 25 July 2025

A school bus driver worried speeding cars might one day seriously hurt or even kill his pasengers, says his DIY slow down signs are working. His route is mostly rural Dunedin and when he stops to pick up the kids, cars speed by at 100 kilometres an hour. For a year he asked Dunedin City Council and New Zealand Transport Agency to put signs up warning motorists of this, but he's now taken matters into his own hands. Ken Schumacher spoke to Melissa Chan-Green.