- Parking is stopping for longer than is needed to offload passengers or goods.
- Whenever you park you have to use your parking brake/handbrake.
You may not park:
- In any no stopping area. These areas have been repeated for you below in red. You may not park or stop in these areas.
- Black text shows items that only apply to parking. You may not park in these areas, but you may stop there.
Where forbidden to park or stop by
- A traffic officer.
- A road marking.
- A road sign.
On
- A freeway (except in a designated stopping area).
- A level crossing or railway.
- The right hand side of the road facing on-coming traffic (you may stop on the right of a one-way road).
- The pavement (not even with part of your car).
- A place where you would cause a danger or obstruction.
- A traffic island.
- A pedestrian mall or lane.
- The activating mechanism of a robot.
- The road or within 1m of the road edge outside an urban area.
Where
- The outside of the wheel closest to the kerb is more than 450mm from the kerb (unless you are within a marked parking area).
- You could obscure a road sign.
- The road is less than 5.5m wide (except in one-way streets).
Next to or opposite
- Roadworks or an excavation or other obstruction, if other traffic would be endangered or obstructed.
- A driveway or gate.
- Another vehicle if the road is narrower than 9m.
Within 1.5m of
- A fire hydrant.
Within 5m of
- An intersection.
Within 6m of
- A tunnel.
- A bridge (on or under).
- A subway.
- A road that has been narrowed for any reason from its normal width.
Within 9m of
- Your approach side of a pedestrian crossing.
Exceptions
- The above rules don't apply to emergency/construction/police vehicles on duty displaying the correct identification lights.