Bedford Driving Lessons

For the council officials, it made perfect sense to paint a 3ft yellow line next to a tree – even though it is nigh on impossible to park there. But for the inhabitants of Brighton that logic would appear more akin to that displayed in Alice in Wonderland. Pedantic and silly are just two of the responses given by residents to their local paper The Brighton Argus when it asked ‘Are these Sussex’s most silly double yellows?’ That the tree – located in Shaftesbury Place – is there in the first place should be warning enough that it is not possible to park there. But the council is unrepentant about its decision and declared that it is important to make it clear to all and sundry where one can or cannot park. Their concern was that if the yellow lines were not painted then drivers would attempt to park in the tiny space knowing it would be legal. And that could lead to them contesting parking tickets. A council spokesman said that the lines were painted to stop cars jutting out and drivers contesting parking tickets Or, if there is an accident, perhaps caused if a vehicle is jutting out, then the council could be deemed culpable. Either option would prove costly. So to stop that, they have painted the double yellow lines. A spokesman for the Brighton and Hove City Council told MailOnline: ‘There was a little bit of overkill in the Argus – they went out to interview people. ‘If you look at the picture it does look a bit silly, but when you know the reasons behind it, it’s not so silly.  More