In message , Mrs Redboots
writes

Colin Rosenstiel wrote to uk.transport.london on Thu, 30 Jun 2005:

Not any more. Double yellow lines only mean "No Waiting at any time" now.

Is that so?

It is indeed - and has been for quite a while now.

Then what, please, is the point of the "Red routes" where
double red lines mean no stopping/waiting at any time?

Double Red means no stopping - i.e. you cannot even stop to answer the
mobile phone or to let somebody out.

When red routes first appeared on the A1 this policy was ruthlessly
enforced (by wardens en masse waiting for an offender) but since red
routes have become more common I have seen less enforcement, and so
inevitably double red has started to equate to double yellow.

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Paul Terry