[WillowTheWhisp]

I think there's a sign at the top of Peel Street to say that it's buses only but it may well say buses and for loading. There are bus stops (an extension of the bus station which is basically what Peel Street is these days) all up the sides and even so people park IN the bus stops! I catch the Fern Gore bus which leaves from in front of the chemists and there have been times when he's had to stop in the middle of the road (blocking off buses coming up in the opposite direction) because someone with a disabled sticker has parked in the bus stop in order to go to the chenists. I think that even having a disabled sticker doesn't automatically give people a right to park in a bus stop or anywhere else where it may cause an obstruction or be a danger to other road users.

I have a lot of sympathy for people trying to make deliveries to shops and I think a lot of the responsibility for a ludicrous situation in Peel Street is that of Hyndborg BC when the bus station was shrunk in order to fit the market down the side of it just so they could build the Wilkinson's block. However I have no sympathy for van drivers who drive half on pavements when they obviously cannot see what is behind them. This guy hit a bollard. Supposing he had hit a small child who should have been perfectly safe on the pavement? If he couldn't see what was behind him he shouldn't have been reversing. Thankfully all he damaged was a bollard and his van in this case. I have the same sort of feeling towards car drivers who drive in front of the Town Hall where only buses are permitted. People look out for buses and then cross when the bus has gone, they do not expect a 30mph car to suddenly appear because a 30mph car shouldn't suddenly appear - but they do, despite the signs. That's why we have road signs, so that people who are not familiar with the area know where they are permitted to drive and where they are not permitted to drive.

People reverse into main roads too? What's that all about? Don't they know it's dangerous apart from not being allowed?

I do agree it's a nightmare for bigger vehicles trying to negotiate our town and make deliveries to factories etc. I've seen them struggling in Exchange Street and idiotic drivers not giving them enough room to manoever. I've also seen drivers in Exchange Street parked on zigzags half on and half off the pavement. I had to interfere one day when the driver of an articulated lorry who was lost on factory bottoms was being directed by someone who had obviously no idea what driving a thing that size entails - he was being directed to a junction he couldn't possible have got round.