No parking

[Gob]

The tiny alleyway measures just four feet wide.



Residents in Swindon, Wiltshire, were baffled when the lines appeared along the full length of the 60ft long path, which is too narrow to accommodate a car.



There is just 13 inches of space between the two sets of yellow lines - which is roughly the width of just one tyre on a supercar.

Swindon Borough Council has blamed the gaffe on contractors, incredibly saying the hapless workers had forgotten 'just how big cars actually are'.

Nathalie Fisher, local resident who lives near the alleyway off Newhill Street in central Swindon, were a 'bit of a mystery'.

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



Sales assistant Emma Stratford, 22, said: 'When the bushes are overgrown you can hardly even walk down there so you wouldn't ever think to drive.

[Econoline]

Has Sue been wandering around with her bucket of yellow paint?

[oldr_n_wsr]

And why two sets? Do yellow lines serve the same purpose over there as they do here?
basically seperating the traffic flowing in each direction

[Crackpot]

The middle is the left turn lane

[Gob]

And why two sets? Do yellow lines serve the same purpose over there as they do here?
basically seperating the traffic flowing in each direction

That is areal puzzler!! I think one would have been sufficient in this case, or none even...

Part 1: Waiting and parking (238)
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You MUST NOT wait or park on yellow lines during the times of operation shown on nearby time plates (or zone entry signs if in a Controlled Parking Zone) – download ‘Traffic signs’ (PDF, 486KB) and ‘Road markings’ (PDF, 731KB). Double yellow lines indicate a prohibition of waiting at any time even if there are no upright signs. You MUST NOT wait or park, or stop to set down and pick up passengers, on school entrance markings (download ‘Road markings’ (PDF, 731KB)) when upright signs indicate a prohibition of stopping.
Law RTRA sects 5 & 8

[oldr_n_wsr]

Double yellow lines indicate a prohibition of waiting at any time

That's different than our usage. Basically they are saying (twice) don't stop your car on that pathway.

[dgs49]

One question that pops into my mind is whether Google Maps would "see" this as a vehicular street.

Presumably it is owned and maintained by the sovereign. Is it one-way, or does it allow traffic in both directions?

[Scooter]

Are automobiles the only vehicles in existence? Perhaps motorcyclists used it and had gotten into the habit of parking there, blocking it for everyone else.

[Lord Jim]

Are automobiles the only vehicles in existence? Perhaps motorcyclists used it and had gotten into the habit of parking there, blocking it for everyone else.

Excellent point...

Or maybe there's been a problem with clowns parking their cars there...



It's completely unfair to leap to the conclusion that a government bureaucrat has acted stupidly without considering every imaginable theoretical possibility that could conceivably justify their action....

[Gob]

BBC quiz on double yellow lines

5/7 for moi.

[dales]

2/7......youse guys drive on the wrong side of the road.

[Econoline]

5/7--all guesses.

[oldr_n_wsr]

2-fer
guessed at all of them.

even a blind squirrel finds and acorn once or twice

[Gob]

Barmy council workers painted two sets of double yellow lines down a cycle path which is too narrow for a car to squeeze down.

Motorists in Nottingham were baffled when the lines appeared down both sides of the 136cm wide lane which motorists couldn't park in even if they wanted to.

The average width of a five-door hatchback such as a Vauxhall Corsa is 174cm, so would be unable to get down the path.

[Scooter]

It's not too narrow to "squeeze" down at all. Cars enter where the separating curb lowers to pavement level (as seen in the lower photo), leaving one set of wheels against the sidewalk and the other set on the outside of the separating curb. Cars here do it all the time and block the bike lane in so doing.

[oldr_n_wsr]

wheels against the sidewalk and the other set on the outside of the separating curb

Must do wonders for the sidewalls of the tires.

[Gob]

The fact that anyone would consider parking there, possible or not, is astounding.

[Scooter]

As I said, it happens here all the time, particularly when the bike lanes are first installed. Drivers are used to being able to stop along the side of the road (even on my street, which has been signed No Stopping for decades) and it takes them a while (as well as some aggressive police enforcement) to get the message that it's just not on.