<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 19 Sept 2021 at 23:16, <<a href="mailto:osm.talk-au@thorsten.engler.id.au">osm.talk-au@thorsten.engler.id.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-AU" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_6660019006757845355WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Well, that pretty much matches what I said before:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Anything that remotely looks like a footpath (is meant for people to walk on) is, in the absence of one of the 4 (3 + one mirrored) official signs I linked, a footpath.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>It is not in any way limited to things that would be tagged as “sidewalk” in OSM.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>e.g. take this example from my local neighbourhood: <a href="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/558999688670609448/889134418067881994/unknown.png" target="_blank">https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/558999688670609448/889134418067881994/unknown.png</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>In the absence of any signs saying otherwise (spoiler, there aren’t in this case) all of these are “footpaths” as defined by law.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From what I understand, this whole "Road Rules" regulation only applies to "roads" and "road related areas".</div><div>Only footpaths adjacent to a "road", or any path explicitly designated for cyclists are considered to be "road related areas".<br></div><div>See rules 11-13 of the Road Rules for details.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">_______________________________________________<br>
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