OK, you all very near, but the situation is a bit more complicated...
(deep breath)
1. Some time ago, the council decided to resurface the road. When they finished, the bizarrely marked the central reservation area so that it is divided into parking-bay looking diagonal spaces. But these are NOT parking bays! This is simply an ‘island’ between the two sides of the road.
2. We have a pub nearby, and many pub-goers are not aware of this and simply park in what appears to be official parking bays.
3. There is indeed a zebra crossing nearby, as can be seen by the orange light just on top of the right-hand side of Lexus roof. Hence the white zigzag on the road.
4. Apparently, the zigzag on the road means that you are not allowed to park on either side of it. So the cars that park in the ‘parking bays’ behind the zigzag get done. Every weekend...
5. It particular you will notice the poor green Fiat, where the zigzag barely touches the ‘bay’ it is parked on... this ‘bay’ is the traffic wardens’ favourite.
6. Parking on white zigzag is a very serious offence, one of the few parking offences that are also enforced by Police. So on occasion we see either Community Support Officers or real Bobbys giving-out tickets there... absolute madness.
7. In this case, the traffic warden drove up in a Silver 02-Reg Saab on Sunday afternoon, parked it legally, went-out and gave the tickets, and got back into his Saab and drove off. Clearly, he travelled from afar just to dish-out the tickets in this famous cash-cow spot.
8. Interestingly, the Porsche (and another car not in the picture) that were parked in the two ‘bays’ away from the zigzag, did not get done.
9. In a word: Bonkers... :-/
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