Traffic Regulations, Schedule 3 - Australian Road Rules 1999

A driver must not drive on or over a single continuous line, or

2 parallel continuous lines, along a side of or surrounding a painted island, except as permitted under this rule or rule 139(4).

Offence provision.

Notes

1 Painted island is defined in the dictionary.

2 Rule

139 deals with avoiding obstructions on a road.

3 Subrule (3) excludes certain painted islands from the application of paragraph (a).

Example

Painted island surrounded by 2 parallel continuous lines

In this example, vehicle B is contravening the rule.

A driver may drive on or over a single continuous line along the side of or surrounding a painted island for up to 50 metres:

to enter or leave the road; or

to enter a turning lane that begins immediately after the painted island; or

to enter a part of the road of one kind from a part of the road of another kind (for example, moving to or from a service road or emergency stopping lane); or

to park in angle parking on the opposite side of the road provided that the driver does not need to perform a U-turn to reach the parking area.

Notes

1 Angle parking,

U-turn are defined in the dictionary and emergency stopping lane is defined in rule 95.

2 Rule 85 deals with the

give way rules applying to a driver entering a turning lane from a painted island and rule 197 deals with stopping on painted islands.

Subrule (2)(a) does not apply in the case of a painted island:

that separates a road that takes vehicles in one direction from another road that takes vehicles in the same direction at a place where the roads merge; or

that separates one part of a road from other parts of the road to create a slip lane.

Note

Slip lane is defined in the dictionary.

Example

1 Example 2

In these examples, vehicle

B is contravening the rule.

Note

The application of this rule is modified by regulation 79 of the Traffic Regulations 1999.