What speed will you see on a sign like this?
- 30 km/h. ✓
- 20 km/h.
- 25 km/h.
- 35 km/h.
Answer: A. 30 km/h.
A sign like this shows a speed of 30 km/h, the reduced limit used for school and playground zones.
Why this is the answer
The handbook ties the number 30 to these zone signs. It says that when you see a school zone sign posted at 30 km/h, you slow down to that speed, and the limit applies during set hours on school days or the hours printed on the sign. It also states that playground zones carry a 30 km/h limit every day from dawn to dusk. So the speed printed on this kind of zone sign is 30, not a tighter or looser number.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 20 km/h. — The handbook never gives 20 km/h as the posted speed for a school or playground zone; its zone limit is 30 km/h.
- C. 25 km/h. — 25 km/h does not appear as a zone speed anywhere in the passages, which name 30 km/h instead.
- D. 35 km/h. — 35 km/h is not the posted zone speed described; the passages use 30 km/h for these zones.
Remember it
Link the two zone types together in your head: school zone and playground zone both mean slow to 30.
Official handbook: ICBC Learn to Drive Smart, Chapter 6: sharing the road – Pedestrians, p. 84