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30 km/h8 AM – 5 PMSCHOOL DAYS

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School zone — speed and hours tab

What it means

When the tab shows both a speed limit and hours, the limit applies during those hours. On this sign, 30 km/h is in effect from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on school days.

Yellow diamonds (and five-sided yellow-green school signs) warn of hazards ahead.

Summarised from ICBC’s Learn to Drive Smart. Read the original: Signs signals and road markings ↗

How to recognise it

The fluorescent yellow-green school zone sign with a white tab listing a speed limit and the hours it is in effect; here 30 km/h, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on school days.

Where you will see it

At the start of a school zone where the local hours need to be spelled out on the sign.

What to do when you see it

  1. 1.Read the hours on the tab and obey the limit during exactly those hours.
  2. 2.Slow down before the sign, not after it, so you are at the limit when the zone begins.

On the knowledge test

The rule to remember: if hours are printed on the tab, those hours govern. The test pairs this sign with the tab that shows only a speed to see whether you know the difference.

Practice questions for this sign

30 km/h8 AM – 5 PMSCHOOL DAYS

The tab under this school zone sign shows both a speed limit and hours. What does that mean?