TRAFFIC REGULATIONS, SCHEDULE 3 - AUSTRALIAN ROAD RULES 1999
Part 12deals with parking and restricted stopping areas.
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Part 12 deals with parking and restricted stopping areas. (3) A driver may drive for up to 50 metres in a bicycle lane if: (a) the driver is driving a public bus, public minibus or taxi, and is dropping off or picking up, passengers; and (b) there is not another law of this jurisdiction prohibiting the driver from driving in the bicycle lane. Note Public bus, public minibus and taxi are defined in the dictionary. (4) A bicycle lane is a marked lane, or the part of a marked lane: (a) beginning at a bicycle lane sign applying to the lane, or a road marking comprising both a white bicycle symbol and the word "lane" painted in white; and (b) ending at the nearest of the following: (i) an end bicycle lane sign applying to the lane, or a road marking comprising both a white bicycle symbol and the words "end lane" painted in white; (ii) an intersection (unless the lane is at the unbroken side of the continuing road at a T-intersection or continued across the intersection by broken lines);
Traffic Regulations – Australian Road Rules 151 (iii) if the road ends at a dead end – the end of the road. Note Continuing road, intersection, marked lane and T-intersection are defined in Bicycle lane sign End bicycle lane sign There are a number of other permitted version of the bicycle lane sign, and another permitted version of the end bicycle lane sign – see the diagrams in