A question about 40km/h zones and the 50km/h if unsigned rule
This has not happened to me, I am just curious.
If you turned into a road that was a 40km/h zones, but you did not see a 40km/h sign on the part of the road that you were travelling on, and so followed the rule of "if the speed limit is not signposted the speed limit is 50km/h (in a built up area)", are you speeding?
How do those two work together, legally?
The 50km/h rule works on all roads 50km/h and up, but if you enter a 40km/h zones, as I have just laid out above, the rule fails, because the default speed limit, 50km/h, is faster than the actual limit of 40km/h.
So, as I said above, in this niche situation, are you legally speeding by following the 50km/h rule if you do not pass a 40km/h sign despite being in a 40km/h zone?
Quoting Victoria Transport :
>Default speed limit
>Built-up areas and neighbourhoods : 50 km/h. This applies to all roads in suburban areas where there are no speed limit signs displayed