Traffic Regulations, Schedule 3 - Australian Road Rules 1999

A driver (except the rider of a bicycle) must not drive in a bicycle lane, unless the driver is permitted to drive in the bicycle lane under this rule or rule 158.

Offence provision.

Notes

1 Bicycle is defined in the dictionary.

2 Rule 158 provides additional exceptions applying to this rule, and also provides a defence to the prosecution of a driver for an offence against this rule.

If stopping or parking is permitted at a place in a bicycle lane under another law of this jurisdiction, a driver may drive for up to

50 metres in the bicycle lane to stop or park at that place.

Note

Part 12 deals with parking and restricted stopping areas.

A driver may drive for up to 50 metres in a bicycle lane if:

the driver is driving a public bus, public minibus or taxi, and is dropping off or picking up, passengers; and

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.

A bicycle lane is a marked lane, or the part of a marked lane:

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

ending at the nearest of the following:

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;

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);

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 the dictionary.

Note for diagrams

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

Schedule 3.