Yellow Lines

dan223

I can see what your saying, but this isn't a main road, so the amount of cars that will have to do that will be very few, a little further up most cars stop and turn right anyway the road they turn into can normally only fit one car down since there are cars that have paid to park that are blocking the road, and most of the roads in this area you can only fit one car down anyway.

forgotmyname

Ticket for causing an obstruction instead. And please dont park near junctions.

Just imagine a foreign lorry ripping your wing off and scraping the whole side and a rear window popping.
Driver stopping. (Red micra in Wolverhampton).

Normally i would have reported it but it stopped people parking there for a while.

dan223

Its not exactly causing an obstruction though, and its far enough away from the junction to stop anything like that happening. Further up the road the road moves over and the yellow lines disappear theres only enough room for one car to get through there, so it would be exactly the same. The road is very wide as well, so if someone wanted to, they could probably get two cars down the road at the same time, although it would be pretty tight, it is no way blocking the whole of the lane, nor the whole road.

Hammyman

dan223 wrote: »

I'm still slightly wary of parking there, is there anywhere that actually has this written to prove that this isn't enforceable

Yes, the The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002

Hammyman

Deleted_User wrote: »

So that means instead of me driving down the road at a constant speed watching my fuel economy, I then have to brake and come to a stop. Then move off again when the car on the other side has passed. Great.

Or learn to drive and time it so you don't need to stop.

[Deleted User]

Hammyman wrote: »

Or learn to drive and time it so you don't need to stop.

That depends on how many cars are coming from the opposite direction.

EmehEm2005

If there were yellow lines there originally I would imagine that technically the road is still subject to parking restrictions. I should check with the local authority as to what the current situation is."

The Highway Code
Waiting and parking (238-252)
238

You MUST NOT wait or park on yellow lines during the times of operation shown on nearby time plates (or zone entry signs if in a Controlled Parking Zone) – see 'Information signs' and 'Road markings'. Double yellow lines indicate a prohibition of waiting at any time even if there are no upright signs. You MUST NOT wait or park, or stop to set down and pick up passengers, on school entrance markings (see 'Road markings') when upright signs indicate a prohibition of stopping.
[Law RTRA sects 5 & 8]

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860?CID=TAT&PLA=url_mon&CRE=highwaycode_parking

Scooby_Doo.

EmehEm2005 wrote: »

If there were yellow lines there originally I would imagine that technically the road is still subject to parking restrictions. I should check with the local authority as to what the current situation is."

The Highway Code
Waiting and parking (238-252)
238

You MUST NOT wait or park on yellow lines during the times of operation shown on nearby time plates (or zone entry signs if in a Controlled Parking Zone) – see 'Information signs' and 'Road markings'. Double yellow lines indicate a prohibition of waiting at any time even if there are no upright signs. You MUST NOT wait or park, or stop to set down and pick up passengers, on school entrance markings (see 'Road markings') when upright signs indicate a prohibition of stopping.
[Law RTRA sects 5 & 8]

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_069860?CID=TAT&PLA=url_mon&CRE=highwaycode_parking

Yes, but if they ain't painted right, they ain't yellow lines.;)

DaveF327

Scooby_Doo. wrote: »

Yes, the RTA.

The RTA doesn't stipulate anything about traffic regulation orders or yellow lines.

The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 empowers councils to make a traffic regulation order which will still be in force on that road. It's the failure to comply with that order that was historically an offence under that Act (nowadays a civil parking contravention). In theory, the lack of yellow lines wouldn't make any difference to the technical commission of the contravention - particularly if signage is still visible. The lack of painted yellow lines will in all likelihood convince a parking adjudicator to rule in your favour using the highway code as a tool - the Highway Code can be used in civil or criminal proceedings by either party to those proceedings.

In practice, however, most CPEOs will be briefed on the temporary lack of lines and shouldn't ticket there until the lines are clear and indisputable.

kwaks

If the lines are in good order either side of this "patch" expect a ticket. The get out being proposed by scooby doo was closed years ago. If the intention is still clear then the lines do not have to be complete or indeed finished off with termination lines.