Heads up, New road law in VIC.

[RETIRED]

For those that are not aware a new law came into being on 9/11/09


http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/NR/rd...vidingLine.pdf

[FRB Design]

cha-ching $$$$$$$$

[tea lady]

Yes! Gonna be interesting around the Dandenongs cos most have the roads have a solid single line in the middle. And there a lots of push bike riders and tourists tootling around on weekends.

[Vernonv]

Seems logical to me (and as far as I new it was standard across Australia - I guess Victoria is a bit behind).

[wheelinround]

Seems logical to me (and as far as I new it was standard across Australia - I guess Victoria is a bit behind).

Driving over painted median stips or Islands will/can get you a fine in NSW

[Vernonv]

Driving over painted median stips or Islands will/can get you a fine in NSW

... and so it should.

[wheelinround]

... and so it should.

Should have made it clearer Vernon relating to this off the PDF put up

However a driver can drive over the
island if they are entering or leaving
the road, or entering a turning lane
that begins immediately after the
painted island (see diagram 2).

Bit in blue you still can't do in NSW I know many do

[Vernonv]

OK, got it now.

[Calm]

Still doesn't stop the idiot stopping in the centre lane to turn into a service station with 2 lanes of traffic coming the other way.

Guess how many trucks nearly rear-end cars that stop quickly to do this - and never a blinker until they stop - Bloody nuisance car drivers someone should blow them all up.

Cheers

[tea lady]

Still doesn't stop the idiot stopping in the centre lane to turn into a service station with 2 lanes of traffic coming the other way.


Cheers

Well they should stop putting the petrol stations on the other side of the road.

[robbygard]

Should have made it clearer Vernon relating to this off the PDF put up

Bit in blue you still can't do in NSW I know many do

i may be wrong but i believe that you can do this in nsw .. in fact i recall it was one of those nationally consistent road rule changes .. perhaps vic is only just enacting it

[Calm]

Well they should stop putting the petrol stations on the other side of the road.

Bloody womans logic - how can you compete with that

[Gingermick]

ya just give up,

[arose62]

I was surprised to learn that in NSW you CAN drive over a painted island, as long as it only has one line around it.

If it has two lines around it, you are not allowed to drive over it.

When I learned to drive, I was told to imagine that the paint was about 6 feet thick, like an imaginary wall above the paint.

Now, with my son learning to drive, I'm finding that my understanding of what's legal and what isn't, needs a considerable update.

See link below for where I got my info:

Changes to NSW Road Rules

Cheers,
Andrew

[artme]

Good changes. Queenslanders best take note

I was turning off the SE freeway into Stanley street one day with a Coaster full of disabled kids. This bastard in a tipper towing a dog came up on my right hand side and went across the painted island and drove in front of me!!!

Ha dthe hide to abuse me when my teacher's aide took his numberplate and the telephone number on the truck.

Seems the 30tonne rule is alive and kicking.