Yellow lines on the road.

[MSTRS:Me]

I'm tired of people on here bleating on about 'double yellow' lines and how it's illegal to cross them.
Read the fecking Road Code...
The only thing to remember about yellow lines is ... don't cross the one on YOUR side of the dotted white line.
If there are two yellows, then neither direction may cross.
If the yellow is on the other side of the dotted white line, then you may cross it. Assuming the way is clear, or course.

[CookMySock]

I'm tired of people on here bleating on about 'double yellow' lines and how it's illegal to cross them. [...] If there are two yellows, then neither direction may cross.

uh, sounds to me thats what they meant.

Steve

[slofox]

I knew that...

[Ixion]

I think people refer to "double yellow ines" so often because, since the Insane Yellow Paint Maniac got loose from the asylum, mostly they are doubles. The single yellow is fairly rare up here, and usually the single ones are older ones. The new ones painted by the IYPM are almost always doubles.

[Chooky]

Yer dont cross the yellows.......

[MSTRS:Me]

The 'sensible' motorist would be wondering why there is a yellow for the traffic in the picture at that point...
I see the frustration, and have felt it many a time myself.
Fact remains is that folks bleat on about double yellows as if they are somehow more important than a yellow on 'your' side.

[SILVER SUZI]

The piece of road in that picture is just south of Katikati (Bay of plenty). It's not as long as it looks and it's in a 100km/h zone. The traffic coming the other way is doing 100 as that corner is a sweeper, not sharp as it appears. it's a dodgy palce to be overtaking, but as half the residents of Tauranga can only do 60km/h I can understand how someone might be tempted to pass there.

[Maha]

Yer dont cross the yellows.......

There is area on SH16 that they have doubled the amount of yellow paint, a piece of that road not unlike the picture, though its on an slight incline.
I would not normally pass on double/single yellows but, I will on the bit of road of which I speak if I want/need to.
But I feel soooooooooooooo dirty.

[Taz]

I flit past on double yellows all the time.

[puddytat]

Yeah I know that but, I thought the whole point of either single or double yellows was to indicate that trying to pass in these areas is dodgey usually because of impeded vision?

[Scuba_Steve]

And remember its only illegal to cross them!
They're like the lines in soccer as against rugby, your tire must fully cross the yellow line on your side before you have breached the law.

[Mom]

Yeah I know that but, I thought the whole point of either single or double yellows was to indicate that trying to pass in these areas is dodgey usually because of impeded vision?

Up this way there was an over zealous application of double yellow lines seemingly over night. There is a long stretch of road a bit south of town that is commonly known as windy ridge. It is about 1 kilometre long and dead straight. I have been driving it for 30 odd years. One day I did my usual type of trip heading north and got behind some slow vehicles that I could not gather in and overtake on the preceding uphill overtaking lane. Rounding the corner onto windy ridge I indicated and took off overtaking these vehicles. Nothing coming at all. Then I spy these new friggen double yellow lines Where there was once only a yellow line on the southbound lane and a broken white line northbound, there were now two lines of unbroken yellow. Lucky for me I guess no plod were about as I was bang to rights overtaking on double yellows, but of all the stupid places to put them, that would take the cake. Seemingly any legitimate straight bit of road with good visibility up here now has the dreaded double yellows.

[Max Preload]

I'm tired of people on here bleating on about 'double yellow' lines and how it's illegal to cross them.

And they're not "NO PASSING" lines. You're allowed to pass as long as you don't cross them.

Yer dont cross the yellows...

Yep, pretty poor visibility there. I can see exactly why it's marked like that, eh... *need facepalm emoticon

[Swoop]

They are just like fluro vests...
Initially applied to areas where there was a hazard, now it is open slather and the importance or "mana" has been removed.

[Ixion]

Up this way there was an over zealous application of double yellow lines seemingly over night. There is a long stretch of road a bit south of town that is commonly known as windy ridge. It is about 1 kilometre long and dead straight. I have been driving it for 30 odd years. One day I did my usual type of trip heading north and got behind some slow vehicles that I could not gather in and overtake on the preceding uphill overtaking lane. Rounding the corner onto windy ridge I indicated and took off overtaking these vehicles. Nothing coming at all. Then I spy these new friggen double yellow lines Where there was once only a yellow line on the southbound lane and a broken white line northbound, there were now two lines of unbroken yellow. Lucky for me I guess no plod were about as I was bang to rights overtaking on double yellows, but of all the stupid places to put them, that would take the cake. Seemingly any legitimate straight bit of road with good visibility up here now has the dreaded double yellows.

The Insane Yellow Paint Maniac. coming to a road near you.