double yellow line

Definitions

1. 1

   A pair of yellow lines painted at the side of a road to show that parking is not…

   A pair of yellow lines painted at the side of a road to show that parking is not permitted at any time.

   • The person who parked their car on the double yellow line may be a doctor who has been called urgently to the house of a critically ill patient ...
   • I'm sorry, you were parking on a double yellow line, you've got a ticket.
   • He knew it would be risky parking on a double yellow line, or even a single yellow line, at this hour, but in a side street off the back of Kensington Church Street he found areas demarcated on the roadway with white lines.
2. 2

   A pair of yellow lines painted along the middle of a road to show that traffic should not…

   A pair of yellow lines painted along the middle of a road to show that traffic should not cross into the oncoming lane

   • The photo on pages 22 and 23 of your February issue shows the driver of a Chevy Beretta topping a hill and rounding a curve on the wrong side of a double yellow line.
   • Police officer: Well, for one thing, you went over a double yellow line back there to pass a car.
   • Hutchison observed the Buick cross the double yellow line to pass a car at the bottom of a dip.

The neighborhood

• neighbordouble red line
• neighborsingle yellow line