What are the rules for parking on rural roads without any signage? I.e. the rules around how this car is parked here:
Parking Rules for NSW Rural Roads
Thenarrator on 04/04/2025 - 11:28
Last edited 04/04/2025 - 12:28 by 1 other user
Last edited 04/04/2025 - 12:28 by 1 other user
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OP has a thirst for parking-lore
is it hard
As long as they are leaving 3m between the dividing line and their drivers side and not impeding the flow of traffic.
Might be advisable to pull into the bay behind the trees but they are doing nought wrong if following the above.
Given a truck is 2.5 metres wide, the rule that 3 metres from the centre line is far enough seems to cut it a bit fine. If I was a truckie and there was another oncoming truck, and we were going to get to the same point just where there was a vehicle parked 3 metres from the centre line I'd be a bit worried. Doubly so if either or both the trucks were road trains.
The normal width of a road lane is 3.5 metres. About 4 metres should be as close as you can park to a centre line.
And the recommendation that you park as close as possible to the edge of the bitumen is just plain crazy.
I don't make the rules, or the intellegence of those that park like that/write rules like that, I just don't see any contrary conduct in the pics relating to "rules for parking on rural roads without any signage" (if that's even a thing).
Yeah, sorry, I should have made it clear you were right about what the rules are. I was just questioning how relevant those rules are to a country with the biggest trucks - road trains - in the world on its country roads.
That's where the crab people live (maybe).
With those
branchesbones in front of the hole you could be on to something.
Air vent for a maximum security prison built completely underground to make it impossible to escape whilst maintaining local land and housing prices.
Alternatively, that is an air vent that leads to an underground cavity measuring 3x6x3 m. This air vent is the only point of ingress. Entoomed in the underground cavity is a live human body. Over the next few days, the captor will alternate between pouring 5L fresh water with red cordial but no flouride, 5L goats blood, 5L full cream chocolate milk and 5L of used deep fryer oil until such time as the captive drowns.
Did you see the episode of Outback Truckers the other day where the truck driver hit a kangaroo, damaging the suspension of one of his trailers, hundreds of kilometres from anywhere he could get it fixed. So he had to park the truck ON the bitumen road so there was a strong enough surface to support his jack, and jack it up and fix it. And while he was under his truck doing that he had to hope any trucks that came along while he was doing it saw the tail lights of his truck, and realised it was stationary on the road, soon enough to dodge around it.
As long as you feed the parking meter before you walk away youre all good.
You’d probably need a permit if it’s a national park.
And of all the replies in here, literally no one has linked to the actual legislation…
Anyway, you will find your answer under NSW Road Rule #208 and #208A
Basically, park in the direction of travel, if there is a dividing line, leave at least 3m between your vehicle and the centre line of the road.
In your photos, these areas off to the side of the road would be considered as “road related areas” and must be treated as such, ergo why I posted RR#208A as well.
so many replies. all are trolls which i just ignore. this is the only useful one. Thank you.
Why do you ask?