Monday, April 23, 2012
Road markings cause bafflement down south
Is a car illegally parked if it encroaches slightly onto a set of clearly defined double yellow lines? That's the question hot on the lips of motorists in the area of Poole in Dorset.
The answer, according to the rule de minimis is that it depends. Apparently the law does not concern itself with issues where a very slight infringement has been made.Where this would leave a driver who parked along the 26 inch long double yellow lines of Poole's Clarendon Road is highly debatable.
What is clear is that this would never have become an issue if the council had not decided to paint double yellow lines in the spaces left vacant by the town's motorists.
In a bid to clarify the matter Poole Council's Senior Engineer said, “Obviously lining contractors often find that there are cars parking in places where they need to paint lines and they paint as much as they can and then return to finish the gaps.”
Perhaps it would have been better for all involved had the workers been granted the right to temporarily restrict access to the road.
However, as the cyclists who've had the pleasure of navigating an eight foot long Exeter cycle lane would testify, the southern council representatives don't seem to mind causing a bit of confusion every now and then.
Photo © dumbledad via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, cycle lane, double yellow line, illegally parked, motorist, parking, Poole
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posted by Fuse @ 1:06 AM 
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