Where is it Illegal to Park?
Lots of people don’t realise there are so many places it is illegal to park. These include:
- On motorways
- Within the zigzag lines at a pedestrian crossing
- On clearways
- Where there are single and double continuous white lines in the centre of the road
- In a bus or cycle lane when operative
- Near a road junction
- Facing oncoming traffic at night
- Obscuring a traffic sign
- On a pavement
- Blocking any entrance or where parking restrictions apply
- At fire station/hospital entrances
- Parking opposite another vehicle on a narrow road
- Double-parking
- Parking at road repairs
- Where prohibited by traffic sign or roadway marking
- At a bus stop or taxi rank
- Near school entrances
- On foot-ways, grass margins, or a median strip
- In a casual trading reserve
- In a flow bus lane
- On a cycle track
- In a loading bay
- At a corner bend
- At the brow of a hill or humpback bridge
- Within 5 meters of a road junction
