Locals befuddled by doubled double-yellow lines

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyTalk about seeing double!
The city painted a new pair of double-yellow lines down the middle of a stretch of Avenue U for what it claims is a pedestrian-safety improvement — but locals have never seen such a marking and were left scratching their heads.
“We had no clue what it is. I’ve never seen it before,” said Marine Parker Richard Farnum, who first witnessed the pair of double-yellows near Coney Island