DKTKey points on road markings for the New Zealand learner test. Each answer is checked against the official New Zealand handbook or road rules; use the practice-question links to test yourself.
There is a yellow line on your side of the centre of a two-way road. What does it mean for passing?
Answer: Do not pass until it ends, unless you stay wholly left of it
A yellow no-passing line on your side means you must not pass motor vehicles within the length of the marked line, unless you keep wholly to its left.
Practice question 50 · official source
A broken white centre line is marked on your side of the road. What does it mean?
Answer: You may pass if it is safe and legal to do so
A single dashed white line (or a dashed white line on your side) means passing is allowed when you can do so safely and legally.
Practice question 51 · official source
At night you see yellow reflectors along the centre of the road. What do they tell you?
Answer: There is a no-passing centre line in place for you
Yellow reflectors mark a no-passing centre line; white reflectors mark a centre line where passing is permitted.
Practice question 52 · official source
What are diagonal white stripes painted along the middle of a road?
Answer: A flush median: a place to wait before turning, not park
A flush median is a marked area in the middle of the road where you can wait to turn. You must not park on it, and it is not a lane to drive along.
Practice question 53 · official source
Where should you stop when you must give way to someone on a pedestrian crossing?
Answer: Behind the white limit line
Wait behind the white limit line so that pedestrians have a clear path, and never stop on the crossing itself.
Practice question 54 · official source
What does cross-hatched yellow marking on the road mean?
Answer: A no-stopping area that you must keep clear of vehicles
Yellow cross-hatched no-stopping lines, and keep-clear zones, are places where you must not stop your vehicle.