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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 4 Hansard (30 March) . . Page.. 1155 ..

58D Riding across a road on or near a crossing for pedestrians

The rider of a bicycle must not cross a road, or part of a road, within 20m of a children's crossing, marked foot crossing or pedestrian crossing on the road, except at the crossing or another crossing, unless the rider is-

(a) crossing to or from a safety zone; or

(b)crossing at an intersection with traffic lights and a pedestrians may cross diagonally sign; or

(c) crossing in a shared zone; or

(d) crossing a road, or a part of a road, from which vehicles (other than bicycles) are excluded, either permanently or temporarily.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

Note 1 Intersection

, marked foot crossing and traffic lights are defined in the dictionary to the Australian Road Rules, children's crossing is defined in rule 80 of the Australian Road Rules, pedestrian crossing is defined in rule 81 of the Australian Road Rules, safety zone is defined in rule 162 of the Australian Road Rules, and shared zone is defined in rule 24 of the Australian Road Rules.

Note 2 

Rule 234 of the Australian Road Rules makes equivalent provision for pedestrians.

Pedestrians may cross diagonally sign

Note 1 for diagram 

There is another permitted version of this sign-see the diagram in Schedule 3 of the Australian Road Rules.

Note 2 for diagram 

There is a colour version of this sign in rule 234 of the Australian Road Rules.

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Proposed new regulation 117A

Page 53, line 13-

After regulation 117, insert the following new regulation:

117A Diagrams of traffic control devices etc in these regulations

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