An anonymous resident has started pasting lengthy notes on cars and vans parked in their street, telling drivers to leave their vehicles elsewhere. The notes were put onto a number of different vehicles 'on behalf of the residents'.
The signs read: “Dear vehicle owner/driver, The residents of British Road have noticed that you park on this street regularly, yet do not live on this street. Please be mindful of the residents who wish to park near their own properties. We respectfully ask you to park your vehicle on the street that you live on, in future."
The signs, taped to the windscreen, appeared overnight on Saturday in a Bristol suburb, reports BristolLive.
One of the notices on an unmarked van which had a ‘BT engineer on call' sign on the dashboard had a hand-written addition reading: “YOU DO NOT WORK FOR BT!!!”
Another note claimed that a van had been left unattended and added in underlined capitals: "Help yourself." One resident said: “Parking is an absolute nightmare around here, and people spend a lot of time driving around looking for a space, so I understand people get frustrated, but this is a bit sinister. Whoever wrote this does not speak for everyone on this road at all. How do they know the people who own those vehicles don’t live nearby?
"Do they keep watch all the time, and then follow them to see where they go when they park up? As a woman driver, I’d be worried if that appeared on my car, wondering who was following me to check where I lived,” she added.
“And because parking is a nightmare here, you do sometimes have to park a fair distance away from where you live. There are too many cars and not enough street. But the main thing is, whoever posted this note doesn’t seem to realise they have no greater claim over the road outside where they live than anyone else.
Signs on vehicles in The Chessels area of Bedminster (Image: Bristol Live)
“It’s not their road, it’s everyone’s. There’s no residents’ parking scheme here, there’s no restrictions, people can park where they like for however long they want. If this notice-writer wants to guarantee they can park their car outside their home, they need to move to a house with its own drive,” she added.
Last year, the Fire and Rescue Service warned that some of the streets in the area were inaccessible to fire engines in an emergency because of people parking on corners or on both sides of the narrowest roads.
Signs on vehicles in The Chessels area of Bedminster (Image: Bristol Live)
Last month, several parents at a nearby school said busy parking in the area could cause an accident at school pick-up time.
As it is close to the Bristol Airport Bus service, the area also experiences holidaymakers parking for free for a week or a fortnight at a time and getting the airport bus to catch their flights.
