Stop using our street as your park and ride, demand residents
Cars are clogging up residential streets in Walsall as drivers dump them and catch the bus into Birmingham, it has been claimed.
Walsall Council is now looking at the issue amid complaints roads are being used as an unofficial park and ride by drivers.
Concerns have also been raised that it stops a two-way flow of traffic in residential areas off the main Birmingham Road and could lead to accidents.
Residents struggle to find space outside their homes and litter is being dropped by motorists returning to their cars.
Streets that are being affected for up to 12 hours a day are Queens Road, Bell Road and Charlemont Road.
They sit off the busy Birmingham Road, which is the main link between Walsall and the heart of the city.
There are regular buses and it is believed drivers are dumping cars from 7am onwards and catching a bus to work.
Council leader Mike Bird, who lives in the area, said the authority is now looking at the best way to tacke the issue.
Up to 14 cars are being left in Queens Road each day and are regularly parked on both sides of the street.
When cars turn into it from Birmingham Road they are being confronted by parked vehicles and having to brake sharply.
Councillor Bird said a motorcyclist was killed a number of years ago and he is now working with ward councillors and officers to get the situation resolved.
"It is almost an unofficial park and ride and it is the same cars every day," he said. "It is a problem with people parking there for long periods of time and it is annoyance for residents.
"When it comes to residents of Queens Road, when they have got visitors there is nowhere for them to park. I have suggested perhaps we can have a two-hour waiting limit."
That move was introduced in Blackwood Road, Streetly, to stop cars being left all day in a car park earmarked for shoppers. The council previously banned drivers from leaving cars in streets on the outskirts of Walsall town centre.
