Regulatory signs
Bicycles are not allowed on this road.
Cyclists should use another route; drivers should not expect to share this road with bicycles.
Most are white with black text or a black symbol, or plain white with a red border. Two shapes are used for exactly one meaning each and nothing else: the eight sided red stop sign and the downward pointing red triangle yield sign, so you can still read them by outline alone in poor light. A red circle with a diagonal red bar always means the thing inside the circle is not allowed.
A regulatory sign states a rule you must follow. It carries the force of law behind it, not just advice, so ignoring one is a traffic offence in its own right.
5 questions in our banks show this sign and ask what it requires. Here are 5, each with the answer marked and the authority it rests on.
This sign is posted at the start of a road you are turning onto. What does it tell you?
Bicycles are not allowed on this road at all
The sign bans the bicycle from the road rather than setting conditions for it, so walking one along the shoulder is not the workaround it looks like. Roads are signed this way where the speed of the traffic leaves a cyclist no margin at all.
Highway Traffic Act (Ontario)You are riding a bicycle and this sign faces you at the start of a bridge. What does it mean for you?
Bicycles are not allowed on this road, so you need another route
The sign bans bicycles from the road itself, usually because the lanes are narrow, the shoulder is missing or the traffic is too fast to share the space safely. There is normally a marked alternative nearby, and a driver should read the same sign as a reason not to expect cyclists past this point.
Motor Vehicle Act (British Columbia)This sign is at the entrance to the road you are joining. What does it mean for how you drive there?
Bicycles are not allowed, though you still watch for riders who have strayed on
The sign bans bicycles, usually because the road is too fast or too narrow to share safely. It does not promise you that nobody will be riding there, so it changes what you expect rather than how carefully you look. A rider who has ended up on that road is in more danger than usual, not less.
Alberta Driver's Guide (Government of Alberta)You are riding a bicycle and reach this sign at the entrance to a road. What does it mean for you?
Bicycles are not allowed on this road, so you need another way round
The sign keeps bicycles off that road entirely, most often a bridge, a tunnel or an expressway where the difference in speed is too great. Getting off and pushing does not help, because the ban is on the road, not on riding. Look for the marked alternative, which is usually a parallel street or a path.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)You are carrying a fare toward a bridge approach and reach this sign, with several cyclists still riding on the road just short of it. How should you drive here?
Expect riders to turn off or dismount at the sign and leave them room
The sign closes the road ahead to bicycles, which makes this approach the place where riders have to turn off or get down, not somewhere beyond it. A taxi building speed toward a bridge meets them exactly where they are changing direction and looking for the alternative route. Reading the sign as a clear road removes the caution the approach needs most.
Highway Safety Code (Quebec)The signs drills ask sign questions on their own, with the reason for every answer.
Counted from the questions written for each province when the site is built, not typed by hand.
1 question: 1 on the G1 knowledge test
1 question: 1 on the ICBC knowledge test
1 question: 1 on the Class 7 knowledge test
2 questions: 1 on the SAAQ knowledge test, 1 on the Authorized driver exam
Signs that share this one's shape and colour rule, and are easy to confuse with it under a clock.
A roundabout is ahead; travel counter-clockwise around the island and yield on entry.
Heavy trucks are not allowed on this road.
Come to a complete stop, yield to traffic and pedestrians, and go only when it is safe.
Slow down and give the right of way to traffic and pedestrians; stop if needed.
Do not enter this road or ramp; traffic on it is coming toward you.
Traffic on this road moves only in the direction of the arrow.
Bicycles are not allowed on this road. Cyclists should use another route; drivers should not expect to share this road with bicycles.
It is a regulatory sign. A regulatory sign states a rule you must follow. It carries the force of law behind it, not just advice, so ignoring one is a traffic offence in its own right.
It appears in the Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec practice banks on this site: 1 in Ontario, 1 in British Columbia, 1 in Alberta, 2 in Quebec. Every question is original prose citing Highway Traffic Act (Ontario), Motor Vehicle Act (British Columbia), Alberta Driver's Guide (Government of Alberta) and Highway Safety Code (Quebec).
The meaning and the action are the standard ones taught across Canada. Each question above cites the law or the guide it rests on, and the exam facts on the province pages come from the records below.
Ontario Ministry of Transportation, G1 licensing rules and DriveTest fee schedule
Verified 2026-08-27
ICBC published graduated licensing and knowledge test information
Verified 2026-08-27
Government of Alberta published Class 7 licensing and knowledge test information
Verified 2026-08-27
SAAQ published licensing, driving course and knowledge test information
Verified 2026-08-27
SAAQ, Taxi and Automobile Treated as a Taxi
Verified 2026-08-28
Read through an Internet Archive copy of the SAAQ page captured on 2026-08-13, because the SAAQ turns away visitors from outside Canada. The French page is cited because it is the version the SAAQ updates first.