If you thought paying parking fines sucked, prepare for the ultimate sucky-ness of NSW’s new road rules. Under new laws, parking inspectors now have the power to dole out demerit points for parking violations. So, in other words, farewell sweet licence.
Instead of leaving demerit points to the cops and the actual driving violations, NSW parking inspectors are now able to issue a maximum of two demerit points, as well as the fine.
You have to do a pretty terrible park to cop the demerits, but in NSW, and especially Sydney, parking is such a sh**-show that it’s really not hard to mess up.
So if you leave a stationary vehicle on or near a children’s crossing, a pedestrian crossing, marked foot crossing or bicycle crossing it could cost you $337 and two demerit points.
It could be one demerit point and a $337 fine if you leave your vehicle on or near a level crossing.
That also goes for parking in an intersection, within 10 metres of an intersection with no traffic lights or within 20 metres of an intersection with traffic lights.
If you park in a disabled parking area without a permit, (which is just…don’t do that), that already came with a $561 fine and now you can also cop one demerit point.
If you think that these new rules are unreasonable, then you are not alone. But this is the world we’re living in now so park extra carefully my NSW friends, I’ll be praying for you.