TWEED mother Jacki Kenney has been fighting for a drop off zone on Heffron St for Tweed River High School, but council has said it is unnecessary.

Ms Kenney has two teenagers at the school and was recently fined for stopping in the bus zone out front of the school to drop them off, receiving a substantial fine and two demerit points from her license.

The State Debt Recovery Office sent her a $298 fine in the mail, which included a brochure suggesting parents drop their kids off on the side of the road closest to the school.

This confused matters even more, with that side being reserved for school buses, forcing parents to either drop their kids off on the opposite side of the busy street, or to use carparks near the school.

But despite available carparks, many parents were still getting fined for using the bus zone, likely oblivious to the fact that their actions were illegal.

"If they can keep fining people for parking in the bus zone, obviously it is a problem that needs to be fixed," Ms Kenney said.

"There's no pedestrian crossing if you drop them off on the other side of the road.

"Some of the near misses I've seen make my skin crawl."

Tweed Shire Council traffic engineer Ray Clark said that the current system was safer than implementing a drop off zone.

"Separation of bus traffic and parents parking is considered good practice," he said.

"The Local Traffic Committee has discussed the installation of a crossing on Heffron Street previously and it was not supported primarily as it was considered that pedestrians may not use the facility given the multiple pedestrian desire lines and this could lead to safety issues.

"Parents can park in the swimming pool car park, in Oxley Street and Cunningham Street where Council has recently installed 70 spaces."

Furthermore, Mr Clark defended the lack of a crossing in Heffron St, pointing out the pedestrian refuge in place..

"Other options are for students to use the state funded bus system, ride their bikes or walk to the school," he said.

Ms Kenney said her kids did not like to get out of the car park next to the skate ramp on the corner of Minjungbal Dr and Heffron St, because they felt unsafe.

"The buses don't need all that room, they don't use all of it," she said.

"I've watched the rangers head up and down Heffron taking photos of people stopping in the bus zone, it's obviously a good revenue raiser."

"And then they do illegal U-turns at the end of the street and come back around to snap more shots."

Ms Kenney has started a Facebook petition page called Petition for Tweed River High drop off/pick up zone and marked crossing, with 196 members part of the group as of yesterday afternoon.