Parking shortly

[Gob]

Britain's shortest double yellow lines have appeared on a city's street - measuring little over a foot long.



Two sets of double yellow lines measuring just 13 inches long apiece have been painted in between parking spaces on a residential road in Cambridge. Cambridge County Council say the lines, which beat the previous shortest double yellows by a good four inches, are to deter drivers from encroaching on disabled parking bays.


If motorists park on the new lines they will incur a £70 fine. But local residents say the new markings 'defy logic' and are simple waste of time and taxpayers' money. Liz Hazell, 51, lives on Humberstone Road near Cambridge city centre, where the lines have been painted. She said: 'It's the craziest set of double yellow lines I have ever seen. It just defies logic as to why they bothered painting them on the road.'

[Lord Jim]

All I can think about when I look at that is that unpainted curb across the street...

What a death trap...an accident just waiting to happen...

How do people get away with that sort of public menace?

[oldr_n_wsr]

And the pothole right next to the double yellow lines. Looks like a broken ankle waiting to happen.