The council has admitted a contractor "did not cut corners" when drawing weird double yellow lines in the city. Attention has been drawn to the lines in Ardingly Street, Brighton , after they were recently repainted. Photographs which have been shared on social media in the last few days show the lines following the kerb near the bike hangar and then looping round in the gap next to the hangar, which is not a very big space.
Councillor Trevor Muten, Brighton and Hove City Council cabinet member for transport, parking and public realm, said the restrictions are not new. “These are not new parking restrictions and this area already had these yellow lines in place,” he said. “We recently completed some resurfacing work and refreshed the existing lines as they were.
The double yellow lines are next to a bike hangar (Image: Sussex News and Pictures) “While we appreciate the contractor’s precision in not cutting corners and following what was there previously, we accept it's probably more detailed than is needed.” It comes after wonky yellow lines painted by contractors in Brighton had to be fixed after the council threatened to not pay them. A bird's eye view of the lines (Image: Sussex News and Pictures) Engineers returned to side streets in Kemp Town, where Ardingly Street is, to respray the lines they painted last month after being told the work was not good enough.
The respraying was done as part of a resurfacing project in 47 roads across the city but residents qu.