MY family and I live in a quiet residential road within walking distance of Altrincham. Well I say it’s quiet – it used to be.

Office workers and factory workers etc now park in our road and use it as free public parking. During the week it looks like a busy council car park but at weekends it reverts back to a nice quiet road with just a few cars parked outside their own property.

Most residents in the road are really fed-up with the continuous traffic, we cannot park outside our own property because as soon as you move your own vehicle another driver takes your place.

I wouldn’t mind if they parked for an hour or two but that is not the case. The daily parking starts from at least 8am and lasts sometimes as late as 7pm. The problem is that if you are having work done on your own property, so that access can be gained by workmen, you have to leave a bin or some such object to hopefully stop a vehicle parking.

This in itself does not deter drivers, they just move the bin and proceed to park outside the property that is trying to guarantee a place for the relevant workmen. I have known lorries which have delivered items in the road become stuck, as there isn’t enough room for them to proceed up the hill of the road without hitting cars because of double parking.

They have to reverse all the way back on to the main road.

Do these drivers not realise the inconvenience it causes to residents? They park near to driveways and because the road is nearly always double parked it makes it very difficult to actually get out of your own driveway. The council have at least put some double yellow lines at the top of the road but even that does not deter some people.

I am writing this letter as sometimes when you politely ask people to move because the space is needed for a disabled driver they are usually very polite, but some become abusive and aggressive which happened only recently.

The person in question was very rude and was determined to park in the road even to extent of nearly running two residents over.

Please drivers, you know who you are – give a thought and consideration for the residents of the road.

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