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[jack]

I never really thought about it, but I realised I fairly habitually see people parking on double yellow for short periods of time, and assumed it was normal and hence ok, but I _also_ assumed that it was forbidden so you should never do it. And hence, I implicitly assumed that there was some magic circumstances that everyone else knew that made it ok, but I never knew. It never occurred to me that maybe people were just wrong.

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[highlyeccentric]

Australian road rules make a simpler distinction: "no parking" means you cannot leave your car there, nor may you sit in the car for more than two minutes; "no stopping" means you cannot pull up there at all unless there's an emergency or something. There's no category of "you can pick up people but not goods". Presumably if your goods take more than two minutes to unload you have to find a parking zone.

There used to be an additional category of "no standing" in NSW, but i can't remember how or if it differed from No Stopping.

[jack]

That makes a lot of sense!