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Yellow peril - for Minis!

08:24, 10 July 2009

updated: 08:24, 10 July 2009

A toy car demonstrates how short these yellow lines are
A toy car demonstrates how short these yellow lines are

The only cars in danger of getting a ticket on these yellow lines would be Minis - or toy ones like this.

What could be among the shortest section of yellow lines anywhere in the country has appeared on a road in Tenterden.

Richard Harvey spotted the approximately two-foot long double yellow lines on a bend close to his house in Oaks Road and doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Mr Harvey is fuming over the recent parking restrictions introduced in the town, implemented after an on-off public consultation stretching over two years.
He said: “One can only watch with weary resignation the Ashford Borough Council painters slapping double yellow lines on the roadway outside our house.
“Having failed, through a combination of ineptitude and local anger, to implement the draconian parking restrictions they wanted to impose on Tenterden, the council are now doing the predictable – bringing in restrictions by stealth.
“As a result, we and our neighbours have lost nine perfectly good parking spaces which the council have deemed a road safety hazard, but which haven’t caused a single accident in the 13 years we have lived here.”
He added: “In their messianic zeal to use up every single pot of yellow paint, the council also seem to have created the world’s smallest parking restriction.”
Ashford council says the yellow lines have been introduced following extensive public consultation in a bid to curb parking problems in the town and improve road safety.

Referring specifically to the mini yellow lines near Mr Harvey's home a council spokeswoman said: “The short section of yellow lines outside No. 12 Oaks Road is there to ensure people park within the designated parking bays and do not overhang and obstruct the access to No. 13.”

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