Britian's Shortest Double Yellow Line
Discussion
cahami said:
So cambridge council canot afford to repair thier roads but can afford to pay cowboys to paint yellow lines on them. This is what is so wrong with our country.
It's astounding isn't it - they turn up to paint this silly line on an obviously crumbling road surface and yet don't repair it. Like most (all?) Councils they're more interested in collecting revenue than spending it. 
Non-story.
Double yellows are there to allow the enforcement team to ticket cars that steal a bit of the disabled parking bay. It happens a lot. People take offence to Granny Scoggins having a disabled bay outside her house ("She can walk 50yds, she ain't disabled!"), so local mouth breathers will park with their wheels right up against the end of the disabled bay (thinking that it's wheel position that determins liability), reducing the available parking area. However, it's overhang that counts, so the addition of DYLs will allow wardens/Plod to issue a ticket to any vehicle who's bumper overhangs the DYLs.
But a good kneejerk reaction is what we like to see.
No, I'm not Camb CC.
Double yellows are there to allow the enforcement team to ticket cars that steal a bit of the disabled parking bay. It happens a lot. People take offence to Granny Scoggins having a disabled bay outside her house ("She can walk 50yds, she ain't disabled!"), so local mouth breathers will park with their wheels right up against the end of the disabled bay (thinking that it's wheel position that determins liability), reducing the available parking area. However, it's overhang that counts, so the addition of DYLs will allow wardens/Plod to issue a ticket to any vehicle who's bumper overhangs the DYLs.
But a good kneejerk reaction is what we like to see.
No, I'm not Camb CC.
Edited by OpulentBob on Friday 5th April 14:27
OpulentBob said:
Non-story.
Double yellows are there to allow the enforcement team to ticket cars that steal a bit of the disabled parking bay. It happens a lot. People take offence to Granny Scoggins having a disabled bay outside her house ("She can walk 50yds, she ain't disabled!"), so local mouth breathers will park with their wheels right up against the end of the disabled bay (thinking that it's wheel position that determins liability), reducing the available parking area. However, it's overhang that counts, so the addition of DYLs will allow wardens/Plod to issue a ticket to any vehicle who's bumper overhangs the DYLs.
But a good kneejerk reaction is what we like to see.
No, I'm not Camb CC.
None of that makes any sense whatsoever.Double yellows are there to allow the enforcement team to ticket cars that steal a bit of the disabled parking bay. It happens a lot. People take offence to Granny Scoggins having a disabled bay outside her house ("She can walk 50yds, she ain't disabled!"), so local mouth breathers will park with their wheels right up against the end of the disabled bay (thinking that it's wheel position that determins liability), reducing the available parking area. However, it's overhang that counts, so the addition of DYLs will allow wardens/Plod to issue a ticket to any vehicle who's bumper overhangs the DYLs.
But a good kneejerk reaction is what we like to see.
No, I'm not Camb CC.
1. If you park over an end line - it's a ticket in the first place.
2. If people park their wheels over the line thinking the overhang isn't going to get a ticket, why are they going to behave any differently to overhanging on a double yellow?
All the local council have done is actually remove 2-3 feet of parking space and give everyone else less space.
OpulentBob said:
Non-story.
Double yellows are there to allow the enforcement team to ticket cars that steal a bit of the disabled parking bay. It happens a lot. People take offence to Granny Scoggins having a disabled bay outside her house ("She can walk 50yds, she ain't disabled!"), so local mouth breathers will park with their wheels right up against the end of the disabled bay (thinking that it's wheel position that determins liability), reducing the available parking area. However, it's overhang that counts, so the addition of DYLs will allow wardens/Plod to issue a ticket to any vehicle who's bumper overhangs the DYLs.
But a good kneejerk reaction is what we like to see.
No, I'm not Camb CC.
They're disabled bays, so local 'mouthbreathers' can likely be ticketed anyway, line or no line.Double yellows are there to allow the enforcement team to ticket cars that steal a bit of the disabled parking bay. It happens a lot. People take offence to Granny Scoggins having a disabled bay outside her house ("She can walk 50yds, she ain't disabled!"), so local mouth breathers will park with their wheels right up against the end of the disabled bay (thinking that it's wheel position that determins liability), reducing the available parking area. However, it's overhang that counts, so the addition of DYLs will allow wardens/Plod to issue a ticket to any vehicle who's bumper overhangs the DYLs.
But a good kneejerk reaction is what we like to see.
No, I'm not Camb CC.
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 5th April 14:27
If you're saying that this is a plot to lure people into overhanging an unnecessarily short bay, so that they can be fined, it's an even better story than the original, even more reprehensible. Bigger bays were all that was needed, if needed at all.
All these actions do is demonstrate how much more can be cut from LCC budgets.
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