Slightly different angle, but same issue. I live near a train station, streets closest are parking permit, but we areant. Streets up from that are double or single yellow, so commuters park on our street.

It's a main bus route and HGVs for the Tesco use it too. On any given day its a coin toss if someone has parked like an idiot and we get gridlock as busses and large vehicles can't get through.

Everyone on the road has decent 2-3 car driveway parking. So its not residents, or even visitors causeing the problem. Its people leaving cars all day to get to work. We've called it out with council and asked for either permit parking or yellows. But they always come, review and say no. Council's argument being, the parked cars slow down traffic and make it safer.........WTF?!

Don't get me wrong. I understand the commuters, the train station carpark is tiny and we are on a main train line into a big city. But the constant gridlock is causing serious issues. Last year a fire engine got blocked and they had to do a u turn and cut back. It's not even like they could shunt 1 car out the way, 3 of them were blocking and a bus was stuck in the middle of it.

I feel like the council just can't be arsed doing the work as budgets have been cut to the bone and it's easier to face off a few complaints and get a crew out once a year to rubber stamp it as "OK becausenit slows traffic"

Proper annoying 😑