Parking outside my house

Please. Just stop. This story is a load of bollocks, from start to finish.

Council workers don't just rock up and start painting anything because there's a few lines on the path/road. Civil infrastructure isn't just "yeah, two planters there, make this one a cul-de-sac, no overtaking on this section of the road and someone paint the symbol for double yellows over there".

There is a set of guidelines in place to make sure that stuff is done properly. The planning authorities have an entire set of tools to ensure work is done down to the millimetre. Plans and drawings, for a start. How do you think they know where to paint those markings in the first place? Because it was agreed upon beforehand and a set of drawings were issued and approved.

ABP/ACP has an entire section called LAPS, which stands for Local Authority Planning Section. If Laois Co. Co. want to upgrade the motorway from Portlaoise to Cullahill, they cannot just start digging. They need to submit plans to ACP showing what they want, the route they'll take, where the sewers and manholes will be, how far apart the lights will be, how thick the road marking s are gonna be etc….. https://archive.pleanala.ie/en-ie/case/MS2007

The idea that you can paint "yellow lines here =>" and some dope in a hi viz just goes "yeah, boss" is so astronomically unbelievable that it could only be conjured up by someone who hasn't the first idea what they're talking about. And now it happened in England, coincidentally? and was only covered in local media? Yeeeaaaaah, and I got my hole when I was in 5th class…….what? nah, you wouldn't know here, she goes to a different school…….

Just give it a rest.

Tell where it happened.

Just park outside your house.

I was going to say the same thing…

Just asking: how do you move them when you are parking your own car?

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I don't understand how you can be so certain, that not a single council worker in history has ever done a job that hasn't go though some convoluted approval chain?

I think you've got a fairly rose-tinted view of how councils administer small jobs. Maybe it's the case today, but it absolutely wasn't in the mid to late 00's in Dublin. A friend of mine's dad was well in with Fianna Fail, I don't know exactly what he did other than he was a "businessman", but we all joked he was a "professional friend". Certainly didn't work for the council directly though.

Anyway, when we wanted the grass cut on certain fields (in housing estate) so we could play soccer, he'd give his dad a shout and a council worker would show up later that day on a small mower with a grass bin and cut it. If we wanted the road swept of leaves so we could play heads and volleys between two lamp posts in winter, the road sweeper would be around that day.

I don't see painting a line on a road as any different to that tbh.

Burn them out.

Seems like he's using the van as a shed more than as a van!

Go talk to your neighbour.

There is a world of difference between the two. Calling someone up to expedite some routine maintenance that is already on some list versus re-designating or redesigning the road safety/traffic management status of a stretch of a public thoroughfare. The fact that you cannot see the difference says more about your lack of understanding of what's involved than anything else.

You can't just paint two yellow lines on the road and claim that's now a no parking zone. The poster I quoted is not only claiming that's what happened, they're claiming someone hoodwinked the council into painting the lines for them by putting up a couple of bogey signs and spraying "those temporary markings councils use when they 'measure up'" on the ground.

This is quite clearly the stuff of fantasy. First of all, what markings? How would anyone know what the various markings are and where to put them? Secondly, any sort of work like that needs plans/maps/drawings of what works are to take place and which show the lines stretch from A to B and on to C etc. If this was never planned for, there'd be no maps. The entire story is full of holes.

Either the OP's friend is pulling their leg and they're too gullible to notice, or the OP is making stuff up on the internet for clout. I know which one my money is on.

Op what you could do is ring/pop down to local garda station and be "innocent" about it.

Say there's a van parked on the road, it seems to be taxed / insured but it never moves, you never see anyone at it....it's there months so not parked up for someone going on holiday....doesn't belong to anyone on the road as "everyone" has been wondering who it belongs too......you're wondering if it was stolen......they'll take the reg and contact the owner…nothing might happen but generally people don't like being contacted by the guards.

I did something similar years ago and car was removed in about 2 weeks