REGARDING last week’s letter about residents not parking properly in All Saints Drive, Thelwall.

‘I drive down All Saints Drive on a fairly regular basis’ doesn’t qualify anyone to comment on solutions to the problems we, the residents, have been enduring for 15 months now.

The presumption that buses constantly getting blocked is to do with residents parking is a fallacy.

The problems are mainly to do with visitor parking.

Problems occur whenever there is an event at the church, the junior school, or the nearby parish hall.

In particular the recent fiasco on Bonfire Night when hundreds of cars descend on the area.

The church car park is quickly filled, then every spare yard between driveway openings is taken because the parish hall and village green are just 250 to 300 yards away.

Then a bus arrives and no way is it going to get through. Cars are parked on both sides and some completely parked on the pavement forcing pedestrians into the road.

We then have a situation where the bus blocks the avenue, and residents trying to get to their homes are forced to reverse and re-route causing even more chaos.

The same scenario, although to a slightly lesser scale, happens every time there is a wedding, funeral, christening, carol service, other popular church service, school pick up, drop off times etc, etc.

On top of all that it takes just two legally parked cars parked 12 to 15 yards apart on different sides of ASD to force buses to drive over our pavements to get past. This has happened more than a hundred times in the past 15 months.

The simple facts remain. All Saints Drive was never designed for commercial traffic on a full time basis.

It is less than five metres wide on average and was designed to allow residents access to their properties and local services, no more.

No emergency services vehicle, dustbin wagon or other large vehicle has ever been stuck in this avenue to our knowledge. A bus is around 30ft long, this is the crux of the problem, it can’t navigate this avenue when there are legally parked cars, never mind illegally parked visitor cars.

All of this, including numerous photographs, letters, emails, petitions and incident log, has been relayed to Network Warrington on a regular monthly basis.

So in conclusion, I would ask residents of other areas of Warrington not to make inaccurate comments to the Guardian unless they are in possession of the full facts and have experienced what goes on here, other than the occasional drive through.

I do know what I am talking about, I am stuck in the middle of it. If you want any accurate information call me.

LES PRATT Thelwall