Yellow Lines
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26 Feb 2010 | Issue 216 | Comment > Yellow Lines
A retired police officer is so concerned about speeding cars outside his home that he has erected a bird box in his front garden which looks just like a speed camera. Bill?Angus’s yellow and black box, which is home to a family of blue tits,... more>
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25 Feb 2010 | Issue 216 | Comment > Yellow Lines
Abandoned cars are a problem that has vexed many a parking manager and landowner, but not many have had to worry about abandoned tanks.
However, pub landlords Martin and Jane Devlin have been confronted with a large green armoured vehicle which had... more>
24 Feb 2010 | Issue 216 | Comment > Yellow Lines
The kiss of death has been dealt to the phrase “kiss & ride” at German train stations.
Germany’s state rail company Deutsche Bahn is to remove the many English language signs used on station forecourts and replace them with... more>
22 Feb 2010 | Issue 216 | Comment > Yellow Lines
When Austrian Franz Muellner couldn’t find a parking space in Vienna he simply rolled a car out of the way to make room for his motor home. This display of strength attracted the attention of a startled crowd and local police officers, who... more>
4 Feb 2010 | Issue 215 | Comment > Yellow Lines
A man who went ‘fishing’ for film director Woody Allen's car keys through the letterbox of his London home using a bamboo stick has been jailed for 30 months.
Jarvis Ojofietimi, 31, was spotted behaving suspiciously outside the... more>
1 Feb 2010 | Issue 215 | Comment > Yellow Lines
A Nottinghamshire motorist has been caught ‘driving’ at 0mph by a speed camera twice, while parked outside his home. Jeff Buck received two fixed penalty notices in the post and letters of intended prosecution.
In the latest incident... more>
1 Feb 2010 | Issue 215 | Comment > Yellow Lines
A women-only car park has opened at a shopping centre in China. The car park in the city of Shijiazhuang in Hebei province has wider spaces which the designers say suit women drivers. The parking bays are one metre (3ft) wider than normal... more>
1 Feb 2010 | Issue 215 | Comment > Yellow Lines
Motorists were issued with fake penalty charge notices (PCNs) in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, on Christmas Day. The counterfeit PCNs were placed by a “sophisticated prankster,” a council spokesman said. Parking restrictions did not apply... more>
5 Nov 2009 | Issue 212 | Comment > Yellow Lines
The Parking Review team has received a big ‘thank you’ from Luis Enrique Porteles, the Venezuelan parking attendant who wrote to us requesting any advice on parking management. Beside appreciating copies of the magazine he also received... more>
4 Nov 2009 | Issue 212 | Comment > Yellow Lines
Personalised number plates are a way of showing off. However, the US motorist who owns a car with the eye-catching registration number ‘XXXXXXX’ may be having second thoughts about his.
So far Scottie Roberson, 38, has run up parking... more>
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