RETIRED Alan Marshall is on a one-man crusade to get double yellow lines repainted after he says the council failed to finish the job and stopped twenty yards short.

The 68-year-old from Highworth said he asked Swindon Borough Council numerous times to give the double yellows on Rivers Way a fresh coat of paint - but that when they did, they failed to complete the task.

“It’s a bit ridiculous,” he said. “You can clearly see where they are supposed to be. It doesn’t make any sense to me.

“Last week I went outside to have a chat with two people from the council who were repainting the yellow lines. For some reason they had left about 20 yards of it unpainted. I asked them why they had left the yellow lines short and they just said it wasn’t up to them.

“I think it’s quite funny as you can clearly see where they stopped.”

Alan said the road markings had not been retouched in years until last week, and could not see the logic in leaving them partially unpainted and is now confused about where is legal to park on Rivers Way.

He said: “Where they didn’t paint, does it mean that they are no longer yellow lines and that people can now park on them?

“It’s very confusing.

“It wouldn’t take very long to get them painted all the way up the road so I don’t understand why they have been left.

“It almost makes you want to laugh and I do think it’s quite funny in a way.

“It’s crazy to paint half and leave half for the sake of 20 yards. It just looks broken now.”

The council said the yellow lines did not meet the criteria for repainting as they were still highly visible, but the lines remain in force, meaning no-one can to park along the entirety of the double yellows.

A Swindon Borough Council spokesman said: “We repainted a section of the yellow lines in Rivers Way after a resident pointed out that they were faded and broken.

“The yellow lines highlighted by Mr Marshall do not fall into that category and, as a result, they were not included in the original job.

“Yellow lines need to be sufficiently faded and illegal for them to be repainted otherwise we would spend an increasing amount of our limited resources repeatedly repainting the many miles of lines across the borough.”