The State of the Nation?

[redsturgeon]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-44547661

Have things really reached this level?

I speak as someone who had over £1000 of damage to their car last year as the result of a pothole.

John

[bungeejumper]

It'll probably be a lazy subcontractor rather than a council employee. Contractor turns up, finds that there's a pothole where his paint ought to be, and paints round the pothole so that he can finish the job and clock off and collect his money.

It could have been worse. Around these parts we've had instances of contractors painting double yellows around parked cars because it was too much trouble to put up a few cones to keep them away on the day. And then the council slapping parking tickets on them, as an afterthought.

The contest for Britain's stupidest yellow lines is quite tough. Here's one: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/0 ... appear-on/. But this one's probably a better contender: https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/ima ... 900923.jpg

BJ

[PinkDalek]

… The contest for Britain's stupidest yellow lines is quite tough. Here's one: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/0 ... appear-on/. But this one's probably a better contender: https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/ima ... 900923.jpg

Don't those lines also apply to motorbikes?

[bungeejumper]

Don't those lines also apply to motorbikes?

I think you'd struggle to get a skateboard up that second one.

BJ

[PinkDalek]

Don't those lines also apply to motorbikes?

I think you'd struggle to get a skateboard up that second one.

BJ

Looks wide enough to me (and the plot was for sale***)!

https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/New ... 062017.htm includes:

“The double yellow lines in the new traffic order replace previous single yellow lines and the odd layout of this area may make the lining appear excessive, however the lining is required to ensure that parking enforcement can be applied.”

Seems reasonable to me and there is room for pushchairs etc to move along without being blocked by parked skateboards/motorbikes etc.


*** Yes, I know.

[Watis]

It gets worse.

In England: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsto ... adger.html

and America: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/ ... ccounter=1

Watis

[UncleEbenezer]

Call that a pothole? You've led a sheltered life!

As for the yellow lines in 'interesting' places, they might be aimed at vehicles smaller than the car shown. But they might also be someone needing to use up a quota of paint - the kind of thing that gives us lots of completely unusable so-called cycle lanes.