Our bungling council has made our street too confusing to park on – cars won’t fit in bays because of terrible design
RESIDENTS living on a road with a “confusing” new parking scheme have slammed the council as their cars won’t fit into the bays.
The locals say they’re having to navigate curved lines and parks that extended across neighbours’ driveways, while not having enough room to drive along the street.
The confused residents live on Bath‘s Denmark Road, which has recently been ‘revamped’ as part of a council scheme.
But they’ve blasted the plan they first backed, saying the new car parks have only made matters worse.
The introduction of the curved lines and new ‘H bars’ have stumped the locals the most.
The Bath and North East Somerset Council has been called out for painting the two rounded bays which follow the kerb.
Resident Louise Pool told SomersetLive: “They painted them as if the cars are curved.”
The ‘H bars’ have also drawn much confusion in the street, local Mandy Moon said.
Mandy, who has lived on Denmark Road for 36 years, said she now has a parking bay across her driveway.
She said: “I’m worried I’m going to wake up and not be able to get out of my house.”
The council has painted ‘H bars’ inside bays along this street to stop motorists parking along their driveways, but people like Mary say it’s just baffled them more.
She said one neighbour even asked her: “‘I’m really confused, am I now allowed to park outside your house?’”
Mary said she’s tried to stop the plans before they were finalised during the Bath and North East Somerset Council’s consultation process – but had no such luck.
She continued: “We have done everything we can to highlight what was a problem at the beginning and it was totally ignored.”
Another local, only named as Mr Fouracre, said he’s worried about how slim the road has now become, warning cars can’t fit along it.
He said: “I was shocked how narrow it was.
“If they all park up to the lines we wouldn’t get anything down here.”
However, the council has defended the street’s new markings.
Manda Rigby, council cabinet member for transport, said: “We’ve been told by residents who have had parking zones installed, they are improving their streets.
“One of the issues which a zone tries to address is pavement parking particularly in narrow streets like Denmark Road.
“Specifically with Denmark Road we have talked to residents and explained how the markings work.
“The curved bay is only suitable for smaller vehicles but does provide an additional parking space and we would take a common sense approach to enforcement.”
The Sun has contacted the council for further comment.