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Double yellow lines have been painted in an alleyway that is too narrow to drive down.
Lines have been painted on both sides of the passageway, off Newhall Street in Swindon, leaving a gap of just 13in (33cm).
Nathalie Fisher, a local resident, said it was a "bit of a mystery" as "you couldn't even fit a motorbike down it."
Swindon Borough Council said the authority will be "taking it up" with their contractors.
Ms Fisher, who lives on Newhall Street, said it had been "good that the council came around to clean all of the back alleyways up".
She added: "But to find out the only reason was to double yellow everything they could physically see was a bit of a mystery."
The council said local residents had asked the authority to "deal with illegal parking in alleyways".
A spokesman 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."
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« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2013, 06:15:45 » |
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This was the 'And Finally' item on the BBC» one o'clock news yesterday. One vox pop said, "Only in Swindon."  |
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« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2013, 07:12:25 » |
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Ironically this was probably the same gang who removed the yellow lines and other road markings near me - when resulted in a huge number of flecks of yellow and white paint blowing into my garden and then turning to something resembling wallpaper paste when it rained!
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« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2013, 16:37:55 » |
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An update from the BBC» : Swindon alleyway's double yellow lines painted black
Double yellow lines painted in an alleyway that is too narrow to drive down have been covered over.
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The lines painted on both sides of a passageway, off Newhall Street in Swindon, which left a gap of just 13in (33cm) have been repainted black.
Local residents have criticised the repair work as "totally ridiculous".
But Swindon Borough Council said it was a "temporary measure" and the lines would eventually be "burnt off" by the authority's contractor.
'Even more bizarre'
The alleyway, according to resident Nathalie Fisher, is so narrow "you couldn't even fit a motorbike down it".
Despite that, two sets of double yellow lines were painted along it by council contractors to combat illegal parking.
Residents have described painting the lines in the first place as a "little bizarre" but painting over them in black paint as "even more bizarre".
But a council spokesman said they had been removed as the authority wanted drivers to know that double yellow lines "are there for good reason and are capable of being enforced".
"These particular lines didn't get close to meeting either criteria," he said.
"The lines will be burnt off, but in the meantime they have been painted over as a temporary measure."
He added that the contractor had agreed to meet the cost and the council would "not be paying for the painting of the lines or for their removal".
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« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2013, 17:18:28 » |
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An enterprising local could have set up a burger van there and made a pile out of it as a tourist novelty. Another attraction after visiting Steam instead of shopping.
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« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2013, 17:32:35 » |
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Once the four lines are 'burnt off' it still won't really be back to the original condition. The residents should hold out for a full resurfacing I reckon... Paul |
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« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2013, 17:44:35 » |
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At least I can park my motorbike down that alley now |
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2013, 15:14:28 » |
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From the BBC» : [Image from here is not available to guests]
The markings indicate that cyclists are permitted to enter the one-way street
Cyclists say they have been left confused over a "useless" new 10m-long cycle lane which tells them to go the wrong way down a one-way street.
The markings, in King's Head Yard in Winchester, were painted by the city council on Wednesday.
Christopher Peck from cycling charity CTC said it was a contraflow lane to "open up a maze of pedestrianised and one-way streets".
But cyclist Andrew Smith called it "bizarre and pointless".
The new road markings show cyclists are permitted to enter the one-way street from the opposite direction.
An "except cyclists" sign has since been added below the no-entry sign for clarity, the council said.
Sue Cole, Winchester CTC campaigner, said: "This is the first contraflow cycle lane in Winchester without infrastructure separating it from the carriageway. Because of the Saxon street pattern in Winchester, there is not space on most of these one-way streets to provide a dedicated contraflow cycle lane."
Mr Smith said: "It just seems a complete and utter useless piece of white line painting. I wholeheartedly support the council's efforts to improve cycling safety in Winchester... but this just seems like bureaucratic nonsense - probably quota filling for cycle paths in the city centre."
The city council has set up the Winchester District Cycling Strategy to "ensure cyclists can use a direct, attractive and safe network of roads".
It is paid for by the local sustainable transport fund, which came from the Department for Transport after a successful bid of ^4.1m by Hampshire County Council.
Contraflow lanes have previously been introduced in London and Brighton.
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« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2013, 15:19:36 » |
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THe London ones have no markings or signage whatsoever. THe law was simply changed to allow cyclists to access them....confusing pedestrians used to only looking in one direction as they know its a one-way street!
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« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2013, 15:46:31 » |
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Councils can't do anything right as far as some cyclists are concerned. If there was no white line, and a cyclist going at normal speed does a left turn into that road, and is hit straight on by an oncoming vehicle, it'll take about 5 nanoseconds before cyclists start complaining about the lack of markings. Indeed I wonder if there's already been incidents of cyclists ignoring the original signage before the 'exception plate' was added?
I also wonder how many cyclists they had to interview before they found one with a negative view?
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« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2014, 07:42:01 » |
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From the BBC» : Cambridge NCP road painters in '20 minuites' spelling lessons
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The extra "I" was painted over as a temporary measure, the car park managers confirmed
Workmen have corrected the spelling of road markings in Cambridge by covering the offending letter with black paint.
The "20 minuites max parking" sign was painted at an NCP car park at the railway station about two years ago.
Last week contractors arrived, but instead of removing the extra "i" in "minutes", they repainted it.
It has now been painted black. An NCP spokeswoman said: "Everyone involved has committed to playing Scrabble in their lunchtimes as spelling revision."
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Workmen arrived last week but instead of correcting the error, they painted it a brighter yellow
Steve Buckley, who works opposite the station, photographed NCP contractors arriving on Thursday.
He said he thought they had come to correct the original error, but instead repainted it, making it brighter and more noticeable.
"I've seen what they've done now, it's just a black stripe over the errant "i", but I guess it's slightly less obvious," he added.
The NCP spokeswoman said the newly blacked-out letter "i" was a temporary measure and contractors would be returning to repaint the whole word - correctly.
"You don't think you actually have to check whether they know how to spell 'minute'," she said.
"We'll be testing them from now on."
The NCP would check the spelling on its signs and road markings in the future, she added.
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"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2014, 09:28:40 » |
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The "S" on the end of the word bus is like a route diagram, indicating a service that goes a very long way round from one end to the other - the ends are quite close but the distance traversed over the route is quite long. For services from suburbs / outer towns to major centres, let me introduce the "Bup". From the centre it runs more or less direct for about half the route, then loops around picking up and dropping off passengers in the suburbs. Advantages of replacing Buses by Bups include faster journey times for passengers, and higher loadings over the main portion of the route and thus overall - are we about to see Buses replaced by Bups elsewhere than in Bristol? http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/25/bristol-bus-stop-misspelled-bup-stop?It strikes me that the 272, Bath to Melksham loop, is already a Bup in all but name! |
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« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2014, 15:37:15 » |
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From the BBC» : 'Septermeber' misspelled road sign put up in Oxford
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The bungled sign in Oxford city centre has been called a "glaring mistake" and left people "disgusted"
A roadworks sign that spells September as "Septermeber" has disgusted locals.
The temporary sign in Oxford city centre is meant to instruct readers of a three-day closure in Becket Road.
A county council spokesman said it was "not immune" to "typographical errors" and compared the council to the BBC.
Zoe Blackman, who spotted the mistake, said: "A typo is one thing; adding several letters to a widely recognisable word such as September is an entirely different matter."
In a lengthy critique of the bungled sign, she added: "As a moderately intelligent and seemingly well educated person-type I tend to notice glaring mistakes such as this upon immediate discovery. Perhaps the person in charge of signs was a budding neologist, or maybe they decided they wanted to use more of the enticing letters that lay before them on their keyboard. Who knows? It could be a salacious poke at the Oxford University educational standards within the city. Whatever it is, it annoys the living daylights out of me, and I hope someone's cheeks are flushing red with embarrassment at their desk."
Mo Bacon from Buckinghamshire who retweeted a photo of the sign, said: "I was just disgusted that it was put up with no-one bothering to check it first. Having been a teacher I'm very aware of bad grammar."
Oxfordshire County Council did not apologise for the error.
Spokesman Martin Crabtree said such spelling mistakes were "unfortunate" and said the BBC also made such errors. He added: "The mistake is easy to rectify and the meaning of the sign in the meantime is still clear. There will be no cost to the county council as the wording on the sign is the result of an error made by our contractor."
Two years ago the county council came under fire after contractors wrote "schoul" on a road outside Wolvercote Primary.
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