Parking on wrong side of road

[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