single yellow line

single yellow line (plural single yellow lines)

1. (Britain) A single yellow line painted at the side of a road to show that parking is permitted only at specified times.
   • 1989 Melvin Dixon, "Trouble the water"
   • She hugged the single yellow line, but she drove fast.
   • 1999 Ruth Rendell, "A site for sore eyes"

     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.

   • 2006 Peter James, "Looking good dead"

     At half past eleven, Roy Grace parked his Alfa Romeo on a single yellow line outside the unlit shop window of a dealer specializing in retro twentieth-century furniture.

   • 2007 Barrie Segal, "The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness and Traffic Warden Hell"

     The postman in question was parked on a single yellow line with parking-time restrictions.

• double yellow line
• red line
• thin blue line
• Thin Red Line