Quite agree... .

Result then...I am such a happy fish

Shame its not like that in the UK , seems to me if you are from the continent you can play ignorant . how mant foriegn truck drivers park up here where they're not suppossed to .

When in Rome ........

Its true, when I first arrived here I would quite happily swing across the road to get a parking space. Eventually the funny looks I got from other people made me check the 'Driving in Queensland' book. Ooops.

I also had to check it cos, all these signs saying 2P & 3P on roads were confusing me. Well, no not really, I guessed they meant you had to have 2 or 3 people in the car to use that lane. What WAS confusing me were parking spaces with 3P signs on them. I kept thinking, how the hell would they know how many people I had in the car when I parked there , and would I get a fine if I came back and only 2 of us got in the car

So 3P on roads means you've got to have 3 people in the car to use that lane, 3P in a parking space means you can park for 3 hours.

Clear as mud to foreigners.

JTL

Oh and they refer to a car parking space here as a car park which is bloody confusing. As in " I drove around Carindale for 30 minutes but couldn't find a car park"

Its a bit like same language but what the flip are you on about. Didnt know about the 2P 3P for lanes...what is the logic behind that?

Car sharing, less congestion. Quite a common policy. You'll see lanes on motorways with '3P' above them, only cars with 3 people or more can use them. Of course this is almost completely ignored by all drivers.

Hi
I think it's illegal to park against the flow of traffic, because it means at some stage you were in the wrong lane, as if you were going in the wrong direction down the street. I don't think appealing will make much difference in all fairness. They will have expected you to know the rules, sorry.

Thats it, driving on the wrong side of the road aint a good thing either. Its bloody logical not to park on the wrong side of the road. At night time there are no reflectors and very easy for a car to come and smash into the front of your car.

Suppose it makes sense, but doesnt that mean you need eyes everywhere? Explains why I was nearly totalled a couple of times on last visit, cars were overtaking in every lane. Thought it was just me being a dozy git!!

Must be a Queensland thing, because I've never seen it in WA, SA, VIC or TAS.

It is also illegal to park within 6 feet of a fire hydrant in the UK.

Fraid your bang to rights! Laws the law and no amount of appealing will help you! It is your responsibility as a driver in a strange country to familiarise yourselves with the laws!

This is where i'm so glad the first thing we did was see our Aussie friends on arrival though I have to point out it didn't happen til something like day three of us being in Australia but we came to their address from a different route and as her hubby was expected home we though oh we'll just pull over there and park, we got greeted and my friend did a double take and sent hubby to turn the car round.
If it is law in the UK they don't enforce it, and they enforce it like fly on dog poo over in Oz.

Sorry you weren't told, we wouldn't have known either if it wasn't for our Aussie pals

Jen

From the Australian Road Rules booklet:
Here (see page 194).

Seems pretty clear to me.

ROFLMAO

Nice one, did you go and look that up just to put it on here lolllllll

Jen