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The Australian Road Rules project was established in the early 1990s, aimed at establishing a model set of road rules that states and territories across Australia could adopt in their local laws to create improved national uniformity or consistency. Responsibility for the project was passed to the National Road Transport Commission in 1995. [8]
In road design, a slip lane is a road at a junction that allows road users to change roads without actually entering an intersection. [1] Slip lanes are "helpful... for intersections designed for large buses or trucks to physically make a turn in the space allotted, or where the right turn is sharper than a 90 degree turn."
Vehicle inspection in Australia is generally done on a state basis (with the exception of Federally Registered Heavy Vehicles, see below). Each state or territory has the authority to set its own laws pertaining to vehicle inspections, all (with the exception of the self-governing territory of Norfolk Island) have some form of inspection, either periodically or before a transfer of ownership.
The Kwinana Freeway is a 72-kilometre (45 mi) freeway in and beyond the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, linking central Perth with Mandurah to the south. It is the central section of State Route 2 , which continues north as Mitchell Freeway to Clarkson, and south as Forrest Highway towards Bunbury .
As the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act [2] did not specify Federal control over road transport, it effectively relinquished full jurisdiction of that area to the States. In 1952, truck drivers were frustrated by the levies on interstate road transport, which were designed to protect the state-owned railways.
The very first standardised road signs in Australia used yellow circular signs as regulatory signs, a feature now preserved in "pedestrian crossing" and "safety zone" signs. [ 2 ] In 1964, Australia adopted a variation of the American Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) road sign design, which is a modified version of the 1954 ...
Generally speaking, at a slip road onto a controlled-access highway or otherwise, traffic on the highway has priority over traffic joining at the slip road, and therefore the slip road traffic should accelerate to the speed on the major road and merge into a gap in the stream of traffic in lane one. At some slip roads, traffic continues into a ...
If the road may be extended from one end, start at the other end; or; If the road is gazetted as from "<location x> to <location y> via <a, b, c>" or similar, this direction can also be used; or; Just retain the direction the first editor chooses (until a reliable source can found that either agrees or disagrees with that direction)