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Daniel
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Double Yellow Lines?
« on: Apr 28th, 2013, 7:16pm » |
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Hi all
At around 2-3 pm today there was two huge bangs, so i looked out of the window and i saw a merc in the middle of the road smashed to bits and a neighbours 206 faceing the houses also smashed to bits and another neighbours car pushed around 30ft forwad. Now it seems the merc driver didnt realise the 206 was parked on the side of the road and jsut went straight into it, pushing it into the vw and the vw being moved a fiar distance. In the merc there were 2 kids one i would guess around 7-8 and one maybe 1-2 thankfully know one was hurt and the police tided up and that was that. A few years ago my dads freind left his car on the side of the road and poped in for a quick visit and his car was smashed into by a stolen car and they ran off  . What i would love to know is who would i need to see about double yellow lines being painted? Is it even possible for me to ask anyone? I know that one day someone will be hurt. Basically people park their cars in a lane. We havnit got speed bumps because its a main linkk to the cov road and the police and ambulances go flying up there. Any ideas?
Dan 
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Re: Double Yellow Lines?
« Reply #1 on: Apr 28th, 2013, 7:35pm » |
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on Apr 28th, 2013, 7:16pm, Daniel wrote: What i would love to know is who would i need to see about double yellow lines being painted? Is it even possible for me to ask anyone? Any ideas?
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Yeah, pop in to B&Q and ask for a tin of yellow paint and a 4" paintbrush
Joking aside .....The people to approach concerning yellow lines and traffic calming I assume would be your local councils highways department.
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Re: Double Yellow Lines?
« Reply #2 on: Apr 28th, 2013, 8:22pm » |
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on Apr 28th, 2013, 7:35pm, lesterlad aka Rodders wrote:
The people to approach concerning yellow lines and traffic calming I assume would be your local councils highways department. |
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Absolutely correct. 
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Re: Double Yellow Lines?
« Reply #3 on: Apr 28th, 2013, 8:37pm » |
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I know someone that painted those double-yellows on the road outside his place and a few others in very realistic paint, and it worked! No-one parked there again, and the council didn't notice for a very long time and when the council eventually removed the painted-on lines, people still didn't park there because the habit was gone! The lines were painted at 3am in the morning in summer, no-one even noticed and when my friend was asked what he knew about it, he just said that the council did that this morning!
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Re: Double Yellow Lines?
« Reply #4 on: Apr 28th, 2013, 11:25pm » |
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Talking of speed bumps...
The road where we live now has them, I can tell you they make no difference at all....the breed of person who thinks it's OK to do 40 or 50 along a residential side road will still do so, speed bumps or no speed bumps 
I hate them on this road - I avoid driving on it so I have to make a long detour around other side streets every day I go to work or come home for lunch etc etc...which means a longer journey, stuck in more traffic etc.
I've lost count of the amount of times I've been tailgated and overtaken down this road when doing 15-20 mph, the frightening thing is when it's being overtaken by school run mum in giant MPV with 3 kids bouncing around without seatbelts in the back of the car
The people who tend to speed down those sorts of roads are the sort of people who don't give a monkeys about the damage they do to their car by going airbourne over speed humps at 50mph...
Last year we had a brilliant accident pretty much outside our house because someone went so fast they became airbourne over one of the humps and ended up upside down on top of our neighbour's car. That was an air ambulance jobbie, could've been much worse etc, but people never learn..
Bottom line - the only people who obey speed humps are the people who probably wouldn't speed anyway
Ok, I'll get off my soapbox now
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Re: Double Yellow Lines?
« Reply #5 on: Apr 29th, 2013, 10:05am » |
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on Apr 28th, 2013, 11:25pm, TiberiuS wrote:| Last year we had a brilliant accident pretty much outside our house because someone went so fast they became airbourne over one of the humps |
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Do you mean something like this ? >
How to make a speed hump the German way
http://www.maniacworld.com/how-to-make-a-speed-bump.html
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Re: Double Yellow Lines?
« Reply #6 on: Apr 30th, 2013, 8:26pm » |
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Thanks for replys everyone, i think i will have to see if someone will listen because as i said someone will get hurt one day and if they could prevent that then that can only be good.
Dan
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Re: Double Yellow Lines?
« Reply #7 on: May 1st, 2013, 6:27pm » |
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on Apr 29th, 2013, 10:05am, lesterlad aka Rodders wrote:
Do you mean something like this ? > |
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Exactly 
Wow, I want one of those
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Re: Double Yellow Lines?
« Reply #8 on: May 20th, 2013, 4:58pm » |
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i had a few issues with double yellows,
at a bus stop, a car is always parked right at the stop itself on yellow lines,consequently the bus has to stop in the middle of the road,
i had a word with my local beat bobby ,
he said" it,s the councils problem"
the council said "it the police,s problem"
just who applies the law to this stupid arrangement ?
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Re: Double Yellow Lines?
« Reply #9 on: May 20th, 2013, 7:31pm » |
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It depends upon the set up locally. Some local authorities have wardens who are responsible for enforcing parking regs and thus remove the 'responsibility' from the Police. Equally the Police clearly have powers to deal with such situations and it should be quite clear where the responsibility lies.
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Re: Double Yellow Lines?
« Reply #10 on: May 21st, 2013, 12:35pm » |
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your right simmo, traffic wardens do the car parks and disc zones thro the day but at night all the clubbers park on yellow lines consequently the centre of carlisle is one huge car park,even the "no entry except for access" is packed,
i havn,t even mentioned the yellow lines o/s all the pizza shops, no body gives a stuff nowadays, just park where you want seems to be the norm
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