Hello all.

We live on a crescent with multiple bends (sounds odd for a crescent I know) and it is fairly narrow with no parking restrictions but has wide pavements, so people park semi on the pavement and it allows both traffic and pedestrians access. The road is also a route taken by parents walking their children to the nearby school.

However lately there has been more traffic along it in both directions as a new housing estate is being built plus other road works in the area. The catch is that we now get people driving along the pavement at speed as they pass a vehicle coming in the other direction. With some residents being at work you'll get them drive up the dropped kerb allowing access to one driveway, along the pavement and then down the other dropped kerb of another property. It isn't just the a case of just the tyres along the kerb area, we are talking 50%+ of the vehicle width on the pavement. Having come around the bend we found one car fully on the pavement driving along.

Stepping out on to the pavement or pulling out of your driveway is now like immediately going out in to the flow of traffic. The way the councils are towards motorists these days you think they would monitor the situation and deal with it...NO. We found out that when the council were informed they said they wouldn't do anything about it. Not even make the crescent a one way system, especially with how narrow it is.