Parking mad! Council paint double yellow lines on narrow alleyway

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"It seems that our contractors forgot just how big cars actually are when they painted this one."

Residents could risk a hefty fine if they park in this alleyway since council workers painted double yellow lines on the path - which is just four feet wide.

The tight parking restrictions in Swindon, Wiltshire, left locals bemused when the yellow markings appeared along the narrow 60ft long lane.

The narrow "road" has just 13 inches of space between the two sets of lines. It would struggle to accommodate a motorbike let alone a four-wheeled motor.

Nathalie Fisher, who lives near the alleyway off Newhill Street in central Swindon, said the lines were a "bit of a mystery".

She added: "You couldn't even fit a motorbike down it."


?Double yellow lines painted by bungling council workers in an alleyway in Swindon, Wiltshire (SWNS)

Hapless Swindon Borough Council have blamed the mistake on the contractors, saying the workers had somehow forgotten "just how big cars actually are".

The Council said the parking measure had been painted as part of an initiative to clamp down on illegal parking in alleyways.

A spokesperson said: "It seems that our contractors forgot just how big cars actually are when they painted this one. We will be taking it up with them."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/double-yellow-lines-painted-in-narrow-alleyway-swindon--103335104.html#072WGgP

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This is how our council tax is spent..

[Snowy79]

It obviously worked as there's no cars there.

[Meat-Head]

Did read about double yellows round a round abot once

traffic wardens are like gesparpo round here. Take photo of tac disc

[ajax2061]

probably a budget thing, they have to spend the current budget to get it again next year so daft things like this happen

[Meat-Head]

Yes thats correct. You dont use your money you dont get more that is wrong eith these cuts

[NZBrakelathes]

Lol
It even made the New Zealand news tonight!!

[Meat-Head]

Today, 08:34 AM Lol
It even made the New Zealand news tonight!!

dont you just love time zones

[NZBrakelathes]

Crazy Brits !

[GastonJ]

Crazy Brits !

Aye I have to agree, however

"The Dunedin City Council is taking a tougher stance over waiving parking tickets for maternity patients, a move which has upset some Dunedin midwives.

The council sent a letter to Queen Mary Hospital in March saying it would no longer accept letters of explanation from anyone other than the driver or registered owner of the vehicle.


The council would also waive infringements in only what it thought were "medical emergencies"."

Giving birth is no parking ticket excuse - National - NZ Herald News

Renee Dintheer had just stepped off the ferry at Birkenhead Wharf on a miserably rainy afternoon after a hard day at the office in Auckland City.


But at her car, which she had reversed into the angle-park bay to make for safer departure, she spotted something that made her day more miserable.


"I had an infringement notice of $40 which says the offence is 'incorrect angle parking'. But I've been reverse parking on that bay for a year. Why did it take them a whole year to say that I'm parked illegally?" she fumes.


The infringement notice was a hot topic on the ferry the following day. Other passengers had also been ticketed for incorrect parking.


"There's no sign. Nothing says you can't reverse park into an angle park."

Reverse parking cops a ticket | The Aucklander

Ned I go on?

[Meat-Head]

On orginal topic:-

guess it was some crettin in an office, grabbed a map, and said yellow line xy & z street. Gaving no idea as they dont live there

here in m/c think 99% of the budget is on yellow lines and 1%. To fund the gesparpo to ticket and pjotograph the cars!