Furious shopkeepers have blasted Bristol City Council after bungling workmen painted double yellow lines outside a shopping parade by mistake after nine months of roadworks. Council contractors were putting the finishing touches to a £1.7million project to reconstruct St Peters Rise, next to Headley Park, on Tuesday (September 6).
But instead of reinstalling the parking bays that were there before the roadworks started last December, traders at the Bishopsworth end of the road watched in horror as apparent new restrictions were painted on the road stopping customers from pulling in. The local authority has admitted this was done in error and contractors ETM were back on site on Thursday (September 8) to burn off the yellow lines.
It comes just weeks after traders vented their frustration about the time it was taking to complete the works, which should have finished in May but suffered three months of delays, for which the council apologised. Dave John, 64, who has run his self-named butchers for 20 years, said the yellow lines blunder was “just another nail in our coffin” following years of lost trade from covid and then the overrunning roadworks.
