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Originally Posted by MrZ
On St. Kilda Road, in Melbourne, there's a sign that says "Vehicles over 2 tonnes gross weight DO NOT ENTER SIDE TRACKS". See here:
https://goo.gl/maps/JKoHNEB4ZxTcEnmp8
I don't understand this at all. Firstly, what are "side tracks", and secondly, vehicles over 2 tonnes gross (or 2000kg) basically describes about 1/2 of the vehicles on the roads these days. Maybe when that sign was first erected (it looks like it's from the 60s/70s era), there were almost no vehicles of that weight, but these days, pretty much all dual-cab utes and large 4WDs weigh that much. "Gross" weight refers to the weight including passengers on board, remember, so even a Commodore with 4-5 people on board will be over 2000kg.
Can someone explain this? |
The signs may be old but the message is that they don’t want heavy vehicles (trucks) on the side roads. It doesn’t have anything to do with the road construction, they simply want heavy vehicles in the center as there's a lot of low hanging tree branches there.
They also have signs (6 Tonne load limit in service lane) further down St Kilda road past the town hall to Glenhuntly Rd for the same reason. Of course this doesn’t apply for heavy vehicles that are working in the area, such as tippers or furniture removals etc.