How not to paint double yellow lines

[NightmareXX]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7687600.stm

Council contractors have been branded "ridiculous" after painting double yellow lines around a parked car.

Click the link and look at the pic. Says it all

 

[Delvis]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/7687600.stm



Click the link and look at the pic. Says it all

HAH!!

Although, looking at the road, it does look like a raised part of the curb...

But still!

 

[NightmareXX]

What would happen if you parked where the car was before? Would you still be on double lines?

 

[Delvis]

What would happen if you parked where the car was before? Would you still be on double lines?

Not if your on the right hand side of the lines I guess....Not sure how it works as there is still a curb & path there.

 

[Russinating]

What would happen if you parked where the car was before? Would you still be on double lines?

No. Due to 'analness' of civil servants etc any discrepancy in the line would render it invalid. If for instance, I believe, there's a slight break in a double yellow you could park there legally.

 

[Bomag]

No. Due to 'analness' of civil servants etc any discrepancy in the line would render it invalid. If for instance, I believe, there's a slight break in a double yellow you could park there legally.

Its nothing to do with Analness, the traffic regs make it plain what is lawful and what is not; this is to protect the public as much as anything else. Local authorities have to be deliberately stupid to **** it up (which they do regularly as they think they know best or have to be seen doing 'something). The skins who do the markings probably knew full well what they were doing; the likely reason is that the LCC section engineer hacked them off

Any more slagging off of the DfT signs branch and I will send Miss K round, she does not take prisoners

 

[acccc]

LOL EPIC FAIL.

 

[Carzy]

"I'm not a traffic expert but I would have stopped the yellow lines at one end of the car and started them again at the other end and then joined them together once the car had been removed."

You may not be a traffic expert, but you are an idiot.

 

[G-MAN2004]

You may not be a traffic expert, but you are an idiot.

 

[Energize]

You may not be a traffic expert, but you are an idiot.

...

 

[thecremeegg]

You may not be a traffic expert, but you are an idiot.

Why? Sounds a perfectly sensible solution to me

 

[Carzy]

He may as well have said:

"I'm not a road crossing expert, but I would have stopped at the road, and looked left and right, and then waited for the green man, and crossed the road before the green man changed to the red man"

Yea, thanks mate, really useful input. Much appreciated. Idiot. How on earth did that statement get into the article?

 

[jellybeard999]

It was in the news locally (iirc) that someone painted double yellows over a dead badger at the side of the road :S

 

[MickeyFinns]

He may as well have said:

"I'm not a road crossing expert, but I would have stopped at the road, and looked left and right, and then waited for the green man, and crossed the road before the green man changed to the red man"

Yea, thanks mate, really useful input. Much appreciated. Idiot. How on earth did that statement get into the article?

Might be obvious, but notheless, no need to be a ***** about it.

 

[FerociouS]

rofl

 

[GeForce]

LOL

 

[Duke]

Classic council workers.

 

[gillywibble]

Should have used red tape.

 

[Steedie]

If they left it like that, would that mean you are allowed to park on that street as long as your car fits the shape?

 

[[TW]Fox]

Yea, thanks mate, really useful input. Much appreciated. Idiot. How on earth did that statement get into the article?

Because although the obvious thing to do, it clearly wasn't obvious to the people which did the work?