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Originally Posted by EDManual
The Baccleugh state park is the area, and it is a fairly main way to drive from Tumut to Canberra over the Brindabella ranges (about 50km dirt). The road just happens to go through this NSW Forest and they have dropped the speed limit here. There is no End 60 sign when out of the forest and out the other side either. (still dirt, when not in NSW Forest)
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In which case ED - the '60km/h limit continues to legally apply, until another speed restriction sign is posted, or the road reaches a dead-end, the end of the road! Or their is an END 60 sign, this would signal the rural default. Simply leaving the State Forest does not cease the posted or implied 60 km/h limit.
Can you name the road and shire? Will need to determine if a Council or state Forrest chap is responsible. I'd be surprised RTA did this, they prefer to fall to the rural default UNLESS there are exceptional circumstances, in that they'd post a slower limit than that, IF they do, they will then post an END 60 ( in your example) sign, or another limit.
Simply removing 60km/h signs defaults the road to the rural default. Are their REPEATER 60km/h signs?
Do these 60 signs use the word AREA?
NSW State Forest on the matter
This should be an interesting legal one IF it was done without RTA authority, or that expressly of parliament. Government agencies often create and enforce "policies", but as parliament has sometime reminded public service employees, it is parliament that makes enforceable law, not agencies acting on policy.
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/forests/re...ivities/safely