A road has been tarmacked around a car that "wouldn't move" much to the dismay of residents.
Andrews Lane in Formby was resurfaced on Tuesday, April 4, but council workers faced a slight difficulty when completing the job. One driver had decided to leave their Volkswagen Up parked on the curb despite signs allegedly being put up asking people to avoid parking on the road.
This led to workers having to take the decision to simply miss out part of the road during the resurfacing.
Photos show the white car parked up on to the residential road, surrounded by fresh tarmac, however parked on the old road surface that workers were unable to reach.
A post pointing out the debatable work was posted in a local Facebook page.
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One person said: "The car was there while they were trying to lay the new tarmac despite there being several bright yellow signs up saying not to park there on that day, so not really their fault."
Another commented on the post: "I hope there's a good reason that car wasn't moved, because I doubt the road will be resurfaced again any time soon..."
It was claimed signs were put up ahead of the tarmac being laid and Sefton Council said it made efforts to find the driver before the work was completed.
One resident wrote: "They had big signs all down the street for days warning the road was being resurfaced so really they shouldn’t have to be knocking at doors, but as the comments say it’s an awful job even if the car wasn’t there!"
A Sefton Council spokesperson told the ECHO: "Prior to any carriageway resurfacing works being undertaken, notices are erected to alert residents and motorists of the need to move their vehicles in plenty of time. Unfortunately, there are rare occasions where vehicle owners do not follow these warnings.
"Contractors will make every effort to identify the driver so that the obstruction can be removed, however in this instance, the owner of the vehicle could not be found. In order to avoid inconvenience to those who had followed our advice, as well as incurring extra costs by abandoning the job with all resources in place, we continued with our carriageway resurfacing programme as planned.
"We will return to complete this small section of carriageway once the vehicle has been removed. To avoid situations like this, we urge all motorists to take notice of signage in place and comply with requests not to park in areas that are to be resurfaced."
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