Parking on wrong side of road

[Tree cutter]

What is it with people parking on the wrong side of the road so they are facing the oncoming traffic.
I just watched my neighbour go to a lot of trouble driving across the wrong side of the road and then reversing up to the front of his place in front of his wifes car that is also on the wrong side of the road. It would have been easier to park on the correct side of the road where nobody else was parked.
People only do it in residential areas and it seems to be happening a lot more lately.
Does anybody know what the reason is for parking on the wrong side of the road.

[S.T.K.E]

I park like that at the old ladies house. Wide street. Who cares what difference does it make. Pretty sure it's not illegal

[Julie]

It is illegal, 'parking not in direction of traffic' or something like that at my daughter old school everyone diod it, it made sense to park the wrong way there just because of the layout of the road meant u had to go right around the block or do a u turn in a narrow road full of cars. The parking moles had a field day giving everyone tickets on a few occasions.

[cameron20020]

i do it all the time at my mates house, mainly because i am lazy, it is a quiet road, wide, and it just works for me. probably annoys the shit out of alot of people tho, esp those with ocd, but ahh well. i probably shouldnt, and i will probably stop when i get a fine

[Ado]

Park where you like just dont piss and moan when you get a fine.

[hsvpunk]

i park like that, BUT on my nature strip, does that count as being illegal.

but yes it is stupid when people do this, at the end of my street, there is sometimes a bus/coach that parks on the wrong side.

[Julie]

lol thats double illegal hsvpunk... u aren't allowed to park on nature strip well not in nsw anyway dont know about vic

[stocky]

yeah cant park on the nature strip. some streets you have to though, cause if all cars parked out the front of their houses, noone could get through some of the narrow streets

[Ado]

yeah cant park on the nature strip. some streets you have to though, cause if all cars parked out the front of their houses, noone could get through some of the narrow streets

Streets like that should have parking only on one side.

[Ado]

lol thats double illegal hsvpunk... u aren't allowed to park on nature strip well not in nsw anyway dont know about vic

Like that in Vic too.

[arrow224]

When I went for my P plates, the instructor mentioned that I had to park within 30cm of the kerb. The other side of the road is like 300cm from the kerb. That is definitely further than 30cm from the kerb.

[alien]

Like that in Vic too.

It's an Australia wide road regulation. End of story with the nature strip discussion.

I've done it a few times lately at another house in a quiet street, and i've become stationary for a few minutes on the other side of the road's carspot on a busy 2 lane road to drop off people.

I can see logic in stationary but not parked vehicles on wrong side of road, however parking on the wrong side of the road in relation to direction of travel is stupid. The front of your vehicle isn't designed to have reflectors for people's lights to hit in the dark (or even heavy rain). The rear does!

[pow3rslave]

When I went for my P plates, the instructor mentioned that I had to park within 30cm of the kerb. The other side of the road is like 300cm from the kerb. That is definitely further than 30cm from the kerb.

yep, my dad told me a friend of his got a fine for parking 20ft from the curb for it, dunno if it's true about the fine, but it made a good story

[VKCOMMO]

dads mate is a pom and its legal over in pommie land and he did it in sydney and the cops had a go at him, but he got off by acting dumb and showing his pom licence

[BOY1236]

I park like that, I think it's ok

as long as you don't confuse other drivers while going into the park or out of it, I see no harm in doing that ( especially in crowded places where u can't find a parking space easily )

[mz81vs]

At mum's i do it. She lives in a new housing estate. They don't have a nature strip. And if you parked even one car on the road its a tight squeeze for cars to drive past. The road is fairly narrow. So we park half up the gutter. Coz its a round gutter not a square one and its easy to mount the kerb. But her neighbours across the road let me park on their grass and sometimes i just park in the opposite direction coz its the direction i drive into the street in. Almost everyone in the estate does it. I wouldn't do it out the front of my house though. Coz there's no need. I park in my driveway

[greenfoam]

Must be a reall trouble driving around in towns/citys these days if no one can park on the nature strip anymore. Everyone just parks on thier front lawn these days or what?. Most houses have at least two cars, sometimes 4 so they can't all be in the shed

[mz81vs]

I park my car on my nature strip. I have a skip in my driveway so my car is on the nature strip til i'm done with the skip. Before that i used to let my neighbour park on my side of the nature strip so his girlfriend didn't have to park her car on the street. There as at least another 20 cars that do it in my street. No-one has ever been in trouble for it. Lucky it seems our council has something better to do than annoying those that park on the nature strip.

[Julie]

In some incidences parking on the nature strip can be a problem. I used to walk to pick my daughter up from school everyday pushing my baby son in a pram then you get these inconsiderate pricks blocking the naturestrip and pathway and people parking on the roadside which left us no option but to walk around them in the middle of a busy road. Yeah I'm an adult and I can handle that but it is a worry when young kids have to do this , sometimes they just pop out onto the road and you don't even see them coming, I seen a few close calls. If you live in a quiet area where no one is walking past all the time and you aren't putting anyone in danger then by all means park on your nature strip but there are damn good reasons why there are laws against this.

[greenfoam]

Seems like there's only two ways out, delete the cars and make better public transport or delete the nature strips and make the roads wider

[minux]

In some incidences parking on the nature strip can be a problem. I used to walk to pick my daughter up from school everyday pushing my baby son in a pram then you get these inconsiderate pricks blocking the naturestrip and pathway and people parking on the roadside which left us no option but to walk around them in the middle of a busy road. Yeah I'm an adult and I can handle that but it is a worry when young kids have to do this , sometimes they just pop out onto the road and you don't even see them coming, I seen a few close calls. If you live in a quiet area where no one is walking past all the time and you aren't putting anyone in danger then by all means park on your nature strip but there are damn good reasons why there are laws against this.

you dont have footpaths lol?

Down here, people park on the nature strip, causes NO ISSUE for anyone, good fund raiser for the councils though.

[Julie]

you dont have footpaths lol?

Down here, people park on the nature strip, causes NO ISSUE for anyone, good fund raiser for the councils though.

Yeh there were footpaths, located on the naturestrip lol like I said inconsiderate pricks parked over them. It was quite annoying because at a couple of places the bastards had empty driveways they never parked in. In a lot of places it will cause no problems we could do it on our street and it would bother no one not that I ever would though, when you just paid $1500 for new turf no ****er is parking on our nature strip!

[LX_HATCH]

lol bloody council

[TVR-190]

we always have a problem with people driving up our nature strip, and its on an incline so people always drive up the front and rip it up, remember 1 time my step dad went skitzo at some optus bloke who tried to drive up it and left about a 15m long tyre trail down the lawn.

now we just roped off across the front so people cant drive up it, we never park there anyway, parking the opposit direction on it wouldnt make much sense here either, 4 lane main road

[Grennan]

Yeah when I go to my friends places I always park on the nature strip. I can easily park my car on the strip and not block any part of the foot path, its safer for people driving down the street and its safer for my car.

Ive been fined for it once, funnily enough parking on my own nature strip because I came home and found my driveway and front yard filled with cars. People tear down my street at crazy speeds and ive seen more than one car side swiped because the street is quite narrow.

I fought it, showed them pictures of my street when either I or my neighbours have parties and showed them that cars cannot get down the road. Havent heard anything back in some time so I assume they dropped it.