{"id":868302,"date":"2026-04-03T01:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/868302\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:44:20","slug":"disbelief-as-birmingham-council-workers-paint-double-yellow-lines-around-parked-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/868302\/","title":{"rendered":"Disbelief as Birmingham council workers paint double-yellow lines around parked car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pedestrians were left scratching their heads at the strange sight in QuintonDouble yellow lines painted around a car in Quinton<\/p>\n

A councillor was left scratching her head after workers painted double yellow lines around a parked car.<\/p>\n

Fresh lines were painted at the junction of Ridgacre Road and White Road in Quinton on Tuesday, March 31.<\/p>\n

But the parked Ford Focus posed a problem and forced workers to leave a car-sized gap.<\/p>\n

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Councillor Sam Forsyth spotted the bizarre scene on Wednesday (April 1) and urged the workers to ‘come back and finish the job’.<\/p>\n

Birmingham City Council<\/a> said its contractors were hampered by parked cars and will return next week.<\/p>\n

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A spokesperson from the council said: \u201cAs part of the Environment and Transport Neighbourhood Fund, our contractor attended the junction at Ridgacre Road and White Road to paint double yellow lines.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, the lining could not be completed due to parked cars.<\/p>\n

“Our contractor aims to complete the lining next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Councillor Forsyth said: “For some years, residents living on White Road & Ridgacre Road, Quinton have had to put up with inconsiderate & sometimes downright dangerous parking outside their homes & at the junction of the two roads”To help their concerns & ensure road safety, Cllr Rainbow & I petitioned BCC & campaigned for double yellow lines\/parking restrictions.<\/p>\n

“We finally got them, only for BCC to do this.”Please come back & finish the job!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedestrians were left scratching their heads at the strange sight in QuintonDouble yellow lines painted around a car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,55751,16,15],"class_list":["post-868302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-birmingham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-quinton","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116338246703082779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}