South Australia’s new time-based school zones sit on busier roads (rolling out to around 150 schools from November 2025). On school days, between 8–9:30 am and 2–4 pm, the limit is 40 from the SCHOOL 40 sign until you pass the next speed-limit sign. Outside those times - and on weekends and school holidays - the normal limit applies. Watch the same road at three different moments.
SA 40 km/h school speed limits program (DIT, first sites switched on November 2025, all sites by late 2026); Australian Road Rules rr 20–21 (speed-limit signs); SA Driver’s Handbook: speed limits.
On school days only, between 8–9:30 am and 2–4 pm. The limit is 40 km/h from the SCHOOL 40 sign until you pass the next speed-limit sign. Outside those hours, and on weekends and school holidays, the normal posted limit applies.
No. The 40 km/h limit applies on school days only, during the two signed windows of 8–9:30 am and 2–4 pm. At any other time the normal posted speed limit applies.
Around 150 schools. The first sites switched on in November 2025 under the SA Government’s 40 km/h school speed limits program, with all sites due by late 2026.
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