[talk-au] Cycling on Victorian paths

[osm.talk-au at thorsten.engler.id.au]

Ah, I now see there are subtle differences in the definition of “road related area” in Victoria and NSW… 

 

While the NSW rules, as written, expand the definition of “road related area” to any public space which has as it’s primary purpose use by pedestrians, the Victoria rules do not seem to do that.

 

Though the Victoria version of the road rules includes this:

 

a place that is a road by virtue of a declaration under section 3(2)(a) of the Road Safety Act 1986

 

and if you follow that rabbit hole all the way down, you get to:

 

(2) The Governor in Council may by Order published in the Government Gazette- 

  (a) declare any place or class of places, whether open to vehicles or not, to be or not to be a road or roads or a road related area or road related areas for the purposes of this Act;

 

Which means that to actually figure out what is a road or road related area in Victoria, someone will have to do an exhaustive search of the Government Gazette.

 

From: Matthew Seale <mseale1 at iinet.net.au> 
Sent: Sunday, 3 October 2021 14:18
To: Sebastian Azagra <s.azagra at me.com>; talk-au at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Cycling on Victorian paths

 

The full version of the Victorian Road rules can be found here (or via the link from the VicRoads website)

https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/statutory-rules/road-safety-road-rules-2017/014H

 

As noted in an earlier comment on this forum the Vic road rules apply in roads and road related areas – see rules 11-13.  Footpaths and nature strips adjacent to roads are considered a road related areas and are  subject to the footpath cycling restrictions in those areas.

 

However there does not appear to be any provision in the Victorian Road Rules that I can find to extend Victorian road rules to all unmarked (I.e. the vast majority) off-road and unsealed paths in Victoria away from roads.  

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