DUNEDIN COUNCIL PAINTS ZEBRA CROSSING ON MOSGIEL MAN'S DRIVEWAY
Dallas now has to give way to himself when reversing the Hilux.
A Mosgiel homeowner returned from the dairy on Wednesday to find council contractors halfway through painting a zebra crossing across his driveway.
Dallas Petrie, 54, had been gone twenty minutes. "I asked them what the fuck they were doing. They asked me what I was doing there. Went round in circles for a bit."
The foreman produced a laminated map and said the crossing was "as per the drawing". Asked if anyone had walked the site first, he said they had, but it was dark, and the driveway "looked council-ish".
A neighbour, Raewyn, watched from her kitchen. "They were there at seven. Dallas got back at half past. By then they were onto the second stripe. I did wonder. But you don't interrupt a man with a roller."
A Dunedin City Council spokesperson confirmed the crossing was in the wrong place. Removing it would need a separate work order, a separate contractor, and "likely a separate financial year".
Petrie has been told to drive carefully across his own driveway. He has also been told the stripes are, technically, his problem now.
Dallas Petrie, 54, had been gone twenty minutes. "I asked them what the fuck they were doing. They asked me what I was doing there. Went round in circles for a bit."
The foreman produced a laminated map and said the crossing was "as per the drawing". Asked if anyone had walked the site first, he said they had, but it was dark, and the driveway "looked council-ish".
A neighbour, Raewyn, watched from her kitchen. "They were there at seven. Dallas got back at half past. By then they were onto the second stripe. I did wonder. But you don't interrupt a man with a roller."
A Dunedin City Council spokesperson confirmed the crossing was in the wrong place. Removing it would need a separate work order, a separate contractor, and "likely a separate financial year".
Petrie has been told to drive carefully across his own driveway. He has also been told the stripes are, technically, his problem now.