What does single white edge line unclosed mean?
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Hi all
Outside my g/f's house there is a shop and she sometimes has problems with people parking in front of it. Anyway, recently a white line has been drawn by the council outside the shop and outside the dropped kerb.
It's a single white line with a bar at one end and open at the other.
There's no signs around saying what it means. Anyone have any ideas? As it goes over a legitimate parking space which is very valuable, not just her dropped kerb that people were parking in front of.
I've looked on the highway code website and can't find it, either by text or in the signs and markings PDF.
Any help appreciated
Tony
Outside my g/f's house there is a shop and she sometimes has problems with people parking in front of it. Anyway, recently a white line has been drawn by the council outside the shop and outside the dropped kerb.
It's a single white line with a bar at one end and open at the other.
There's no signs around saying what it means. Anyone have any ideas? As it goes over a legitimate parking space which is very valuable, not just her dropped kerb that people were parking in front of.
I've looked on the highway code website and can't find it, either by text or in the signs and markings PDF.
Any help appreciated
Tony
It's typically used where there is a problem with people waiting/parking/dropping off and creating unecessary obstruction in front of driveways and entrances.
The lack of an end marker at one end sounds a bit odd though as does the extension of the line beyond the dropped kerb.
Yet another example where 'regulation' and signs are increasingly used to replace common fecking sense.
The lack of an end marker at one end sounds a bit odd though as does the extension of the line beyond the dropped kerb.
Yet another example where 'regulation' and signs are increasingly used to replace common fecking sense.
Yup that was what I assumed - especially as I could not find anything on the DVLA website.
I'll take a picture when I'm back home and show you. It's a shop which (as you look at it) has a drive with dropped kerb to it's left, then the shop is massive windows with no dropped kerb or any requirement of access (there is a path). So I wonder if they just got a bit keen with the paint, or there was a car parked there when they painted it.
I, in shop owner woman's defence, did park there once. It was midnight on a friday and I was due to leave my girlfriend's at 6am and so I knew I wouldn't cause any problems. Except at 5:55 my plans got cancelled so I rolled over and went back to sleep. Oops! I wonder if she has lots of similar problems though to warrant painting that.
I'll take a picture when I'm back home and show you. It's a shop which (as you look at it) has a drive with dropped kerb to it's left, then the shop is massive windows with no dropped kerb or any requirement of access (there is a path). So I wonder if they just got a bit keen with the paint, or there was a car parked there when they painted it.
I, in shop owner woman's defence, did park there once. It was midnight on a friday and I was due to leave my girlfriend's at 6am and so I knew I wouldn't cause any problems. Except at 5:55 my plans got cancelled so I rolled over and went back to sleep. Oops! I wonder if she has lots of similar problems though to warrant painting that.
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