'School keep clear' sign appears 15 years too late
BBCA council leader says she is embarrassed by "school keep clear" markings on a street where there has been no school for 15 years.
Jane Ashworth, Labour leader at Stoke-on-Trent City Council, has apologised to residents of Greendock Street in Longton whose homes lie next to the painted sign done in bright yellow. She added the authority would review the issue.
"[There] used to be a school about 15 years ago and it's moved," said Ali Hassan, who lives just feet away from the daft daubing.
Taking a guess at how the mistake had happened, he added: "The problem is there is a guy sitting in an office making lots of money and he doesn't have an idea what's going on."
The works were carried out overnight on Friday, residents told BBC Radio Stoke.
The issue has left many of them frustrated - and also concerned about whether they might receive a fine for parking outside their homes.
"Why waste all this money when Edensor Road is full of potholes and other roads round the city [are] full of potholes?" one resident asked.
"They need to come along and burn [the road markings] off - we have got one parking space for all the residents in the street."
Ashworth admitted there "clearly isn't a school" next to the sign and branded the work "a mess".
"What we will be doing is reviewing how it happened, apologising to the residents, and making it absolutely clear that anybody who parks on what appears to be double yellow line [there] will not be ticketed," she said.
She added the layout of the lettering looked "odd" and wanted contractors to return to remove it.
"I'm annoyed for the residents that live there that have been messed about but embarrassed that we made such a mistake," she said.
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