article_snippet: Residents have accused a council of painting 'pointless' double yellow lines after two new no-parking zones measuring just 12 inches appeared on a London street.
article_snippet: The road markings on Vernon Road in Leytonstone are big enough for a couple of toy cars - but couldn't fit the tyre of a real one.
article_snippet: Tight parking space: Two sets of yellow lines were painted on Vernon Road in Leytonstone, east London .
article_snippet: Close-up: The road markings, pictred, barely fit too toy cars - and are far too short for the tyre of a real one .
article_snippet: Emiko Kavanagh-Priest said: 'What pointless double yellow lines.
article_snippet: Waltham Forest Council defended the decision to paint the 12-inch road markings, pictured .
article_snippet: Other contenders for Britain's most pointless road markings .
article_snippet: But residents and motorists say the markings, which are about the same length as two iPhone 6's, are a 'ridiculous' waste of time and money and branded a 'ridiculous' waste of time and money 'pathetic'.
article_snippet: Drivers in a village in South Wales were left bemused and confused after workmen painted double yellow lines - in a layby.
article_snippet: One driver spoke to one of the workmen, who admitted One driver had never put double yellow lines in a lay-by before.
article_snippet: Two sets of double yellow lines measuring just 13 inches long apiece were painted in between parking spaces on a residential road in Cambridge.
article_snippet: The tiny 13-inch double yellow lines have been painted between official parking spaces in Cambridge .
article_snippet: A council was accused of painting Britain’s most pointless double yellow lines which measure just 18in - too small to fit a single tyre.
article_snippet: Residents were stunned when The lines appeared in Kingston, south west London, last April, curved around a corner kerb at a three-way junction - but barely big enough for a toy car or a unicycle.
article_snippet: The lines were today criticised by the Institute of Advanced Motorists, which said it appeared to be ‘another example of strict application of regulations failing the common sense test’.
article_snippet: Curved: Residents were stunned when The lines appeared in Kingston, south west London, last April .
highlights_snippet: Markings have been painted on Vernon Road, in Leytonstone, east London .
  