On 16/10/2013 19:47, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:14:59 +0100, Another John wrote:

I'm not talking about yellow lines, I'm talking about double-yellows.
Blue badge holders often park in our local town on the doubles, thus
effectively blocking one side of the street for anything bigger than
another car -- for example a fire engine, or an ambulance. Not to
mention the sheer, simple, buggeration caused to all ordinary car users.

They do that outside the Co-op here. There is a carpark right next to
it and I think in the 13 odd years we have lived here I can count on
the fingers of one hand the number of times there hasn't been spaces
free in it... Lazy, inconsiderate gits.

A year or so back I did a FOE request to the local council about when
traffic wardens had visited over the previous 12 months. They only
visit when the single yellow lines are active (Easter to October ish)
and then only a couple of days a month. So who enforces the double
yellows? No one... The Police don't do it unless there is a serious
obstruction and then only reluctantly.

Round here, at either end of the parallel road, we have a primary school
and only a quarter mile away, a hospital. Every day the traffic wardens
target the parking spaces on the road outside the hospital, booking
people who are in marked parking places, but have overstayed due to late
running appointments, etc. Meanwhile, parents parking for the two
schools make it impossible to pull safely out of either end of our road
due their parking right up to (and even partly round) the junctions,
blocking any view of traffic trying to enter or leave the junctions.
Despite contacting the council, the wardens continue to target the safe,
but unavoidably detained patients and carers, while ignoring the
dangerously parked parents. The two places are just about visible from
each other!

SteveW