ELENA YAKUSHEVA / SHUTTERSTOCK
LOCAL AUTHORITY NEWS
NEWS Cllr Damien Tunnacliffe, who represents
West Chesterton on Cambridge City Council, hopes the lines will become an attraction for visitors.
He said: ‘I think they’re cute and could be on the tourist trail. We should get the tour guides onto it. Cambridge is all about breaking records.’
But Cllr Rob Dryden, a former mayor of Cambridge, said: ‘Perhaps a child with a toy car could park there. It’s absolutely ridiculous.’ It seems Cambridge has now taken the top spot in the league table of miniature double yellow lines. Norwich claimed to hold the dubious accolade in 2011 with double yellow lines measuring 17in (41cm) in the city’s Stafford Street.
TOP SPOT FOR ‘TOY TOWN’
The university town of Cambridge leads the way in many areas of innovation, and this has extended to the length of the double yellow lines.
Now, not only can the cycling capital of Britain boast the longest guided busway in the world, it can now say it probably has
the shortest double yellows in the UK, with the lines on one street measuring just 13in (33cm).
The lines have been described as ‘cute’ by one councillor, but have also attracted criticism after they were laid down in the residential De Freville Avenue area of the city.
Last year Canterbury in Kent came close with its 21in (53cm) double yellow lines. The county council insists the lines are essential as they separate different parking areas.
A spokesperson said: ‘This is common practice. The yellow lines are at either end of a disabled parking bay and are there to prevent vehicles parked either side from encroaching on the disabled bay.’
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