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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Tom Wall

Bristol parking wars: Greens gear up for fight with drivers over pavement ban on cars

A mother and child are forced to walk on the road due to parked vehicles in Easton, Bristol.
A mother and child are forced to walk on the road due to parked vehicles in Easton, Bristol. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Observer

Ismail Mohammad pushes a buggy down the centre of a narrow road in east Bristol. His two sons stay close as vehicles could come from either direction at any moment. “There are cars [parked] on the pavement. We have to go on the road,” says Mohammad as he hurries to the boys’ primary school in Easton. “It’s dangerous because cars sometimes come fast through here.”

This is the daily gauntlet run by parents of young children and by disabled people in many parts of the inner city, where tightly packed Victorian streets struggle to accommodate lines of parked cars, camper vans and ever-expanding SUVs.

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