There is an unnecessary, pure revenue generating 20 MPH ‘school zone’ light that turns on every weekday around 1pm and remains on until close to 4pm (3 hours in length) located at Chumuckla Highway and ‘Education Drive’ intersection. There is a middle school and an ‘intermediate’ school located 2 miles west on Education Drive nowhere near this ‘school zone’. The light even comes on during school holidays WHEN SCHOOL IS CLOSED.

I have never once witnessed any children or crossing guard or any other human in this ‘school zone’ but I do see Santa Rosa Sheriffs Deputies in marked and unmarked patrol cars working this area a lot. Be especially aware of a dark grey ‘stealth’ slicktop blacked-out Dodge Charger with black door markings that is seems to exclusively sit in this area most of the year.

The maddening part of this blatant speedtrap is that it is the longest ‘school zone’ I have ever seen, lasting 3 hours every day for reasons I have yet determined. Big money tickets await local drivers just trying to get through this 3-hour school gauntlet daily.

This school zone is the twin of another one lasting just as long on Highway 90 in Pace next to an elementary school that slows traffic to an unbearable crawl every weekday. Who puts an elementary school next to a busy highway??UNBELIEVABLE!