Painted medians

[Tazz]

All other colours = no lane changes unless it is unsafe to remain within your lane. Cop likely to waggle his finger unless you put someone directly in danger.

You can get ticketed for 'cutting' the solid white on the inside of a corner. It happens.

Solid white also means no passing (as you can't cross it....), and I could be wrong but if it is like Aus that also means a big nopeeeeeee if you're pulling out of a driveway etc, u-turning or doing helicopter doughnuts.

[FJRider]

Got let of a ticket for passing on a painted median strip, cop only saw the last second or two as I pulled back into my lane.
I know you aren't allowed to use them as passing lanes but was wondering if you are allowed to cross the median into the opposing lane to pass traffic and then cross it again as you come back?

That is a definite NO.

[Big Dog]

You can get ticketed for 'cutting' the solid white on the inside of a corner. It happens.

Solid white also means no passing (as you can't cross it....), and I could be wrong but if it is like Aus that also means a big nopeeeeeee if you're pulling out of a driveway etc, u-turning or doing helicopter doughnuts.

I took it as given that white lines are included. Including the fog line.
My brother got a ticket for failing to remain in his lane because his mirror crossed the centre line where it was white solid.

I suspect the cop may have already had a woody for his shit driving and this was just an easy ticket.

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[Tazz]

I took it as given that white lines are included. Including the fog line.
My brother got a ticket for failing to remain in his lane because his mirror crossed the centre line where it was white solid.

I suspect the cop may have already had a woody for his shit driving and this was just an easy ticket.

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Yeah was more mentioning for the passing. Different to a lane change, but splitting hairs.

Friends old man got one for trailer wheel going partially over from the akaroa cop with a hard on for anything other than actual police work.

[Gremlin]

Good luck finding any reference to solid white lines in legislation (ie, where it matters). I couldn't find reference...

[AllanB]

Pass on the white lines

[Berries]

Right, yellow lines

2.9 Passing where roadway marked with no-passing line
(1) This clause applies if a driver is at or approaching a portion of a roadway where the road controlling authority has, in accordance with any enactment, marked a no-passing line applying to traffic moving in the direction in which the driver is moving.
(2) The driver must not pass or attempt to pass a motor vehicle or an animal-drawn vehicle moving in the same direction within the length of roadway on which the no-passing line is marked until the driver reaches the further end of the no-passing line, unless throughout the passing movement the driver keeps the vehicle wholly to the left of the no-passing line.

That is the only reference and it is quite clear. You can turn right across them, do u-turns across them, the only thing you cannot do is cross them to overtake a motor vehicle or animal drawn vehicle. Note no reference to cyclists.

White lines are different. A solid white line might surround a flush median but it is the FM that means you cannot overtake, not the solid line. You can get done for crossing a solid white line on a curve because you are failing to stay in your lane. For the same reason it could be a normal non-solid white line or indeed a yellow line, the colour matters not. I have never heard of anyone getting done for crossing the solid white line on your left, the edge line. This would fall foul of section 2.3(2)(a).

2.3 Use of lanes
(2) A driver, when driving on a road marked in lanes,—
(a) must drive as far as practicable entirely within a lane except when complying with subclause 2.1(2) or when changing lanes

Where 2.1(2) is "If a driver’s speed, when driving, is such as to impede the normal and reasonable flow of traffic, that driver must, as soon as is reasonably practicable, move the vehicle as far as practicable to the left side of the roadway when this is necessary to allow following traffic to pass."

You would have to fail the attitude test to get a ticket for that.

And of course flush medians are now morphing in to wide centre lines which have dashed lines along the side. You can overtake across these. And you are actively encouraged to cross a solid white line to drive over the hatching to get in to a right turn bay which makes it even harder to explain what a solid white line means. If you don't know the road rules you are best to overtake everything and let the magistrate sort it out.