Hi, as the title suggests I am talking about people who either shop, work or commute to Hillsborough, particularly Rudyard Road, Kipling Road and Treswell Crescent. As a local resident, it is infuriating not being able to get a car parking space at certain times of the day near your own house.

From 8am, when "park&riders", workers and parents begin to arrive to midnight when the pubs close and people drive off home (most probably over the limit, and the rest who leave it there until midday the next day when they have sobered up enough to come and collect it) it is nigh on impossible to get a space. Throughout the day it is busy with shoppers until 5-6pm when people go home and the workers leave too. You might have a slight chance of getting a space then - if you're lucky. But come 7pm the pub go-ers start arriving. And so on it goes... This isn't just at weekends, but every day.

I'm not naming and shaming, and I don't want to ban parking on the road or anything, but can somebody please tell my what is so difficult about parking in morrisons if you're shopping, or in the Hillsboro Co-op/Post Office carparks or the Farmfoods car park - they are there to be used! There is a tram park and ride just down the road, and Hillsborough is so well served by buses too. There's no CCTV on this road unlike the car parks (all of which, coincidentally, are free!), and it is a hotspot with police who come and check tax discs and tyre treads etc regularly, yet still people continue to park here, without a care.

On another note, the new camera they are installing by the tram gates to stop people going through them will severely affect this road - you will no longer be able to access it, except from the road where Wilkos/Farmfoods is. I wonder if I will actually be able to park outside my house then?

Thanks for reading this rant, please feel free to air your views too, about Hillsborough and the rest of Sheffield.

Living on a road where everyone parks can be a nightmare and I hope things chang a bit for the better soon and you park your car. Only thing is, I wouldn't hold out for the tram gate camera because as you say, it won't affect people turning left out of Bradfield Road to get to your road - which is where I think most of the traffic along there comes from (?)

We all pays our road tax. We park where we like. I too lived on a road not far from yours which was always a nightmare. But you cant complain. They have as much right to par outside your house as you do.

Yes I know I have no claim over it or anything, I am not saying that, just that people don't care about the residents - I've seen people throwing rubbish out of their car windows, having their stereos blaring out loud, driving up and down early in the morning/late at night after the pubs and clubs shut without a care for residents and their children who at 2am will undoubtedly be asleep. The problem has been so bad that on occasions I've actually had to park a few streets down and at one time on Dodd Street! If you have young children this isn't at all safe. The poll I set up relates to just one side or part of the road being made permits only as I know not every house has a car. Or do you think that's a bad idea?

Not familiar with Dodd Street. Dont know how far it is. I used to have to park a few streets away, saw it as an inconvenience, but something I had to live with.

Permit schemes can lead to a lot of bother, because residents become very protective over their spaces.
As a result, the family down the road who has two cars and a work's van suddenly becomes the local enemy and is stuck without space for the vehicles, and when you have a few friends round and you end up with 5 cars outside, people get annoyed very quickly and start banging on your door demanding you create space for em. They see it as an extension of their personal territory.

Also I find it's easy to complain about parking around your own area, but then you might drive elsewhere, say Crookes or Hunter's Bar, and do exactly the same thing in someone elses street and never think about it.

Swings and roundabouts innit. I do sympathise, it does suck when it's happening in your own street.

I always wondered about that Tram Gate, as everyone drives through it and the police let them. Always confused me seeing as the sign specifically says Trams and Buses only.

Coming down Ripley Street, I always turn right to go up langsett road past maplins to get to Penistone Road, then back up to middlewood road.

Would be sooooo much easier if you could drive through Hillsborough (as everyone seems to do).

Yes I know it is unavoidable - however on our road of about 65 houses, there are probably only about 20 residents vehicles which isn't much that require permits. I see your point about people with multiple cars and visitors etc, but by only having say one side of the road or a specific section for residents only it would be a start. Having said that though, judging by the state of the parking of a lot of motorists, many would still continue to park illegally (we get lots parking on the double yellows and right on the corners of junctions which is illegal).

Knowing how much of an inconvenience it is, I try to use car parks or better still public transport when I go out. When visiting friends I try to park on the ends of streets where there are no houses, or if the houses have driveways then in between them on the street (so I don't block anyone in).

Dodd Street is just off Ripley Street, behind Maplins - it is a 2-3 minute walk but not great when you've a pram and kids in tow! Aorry for the whinge people, I just wondered if anyone else finds it as infuriating as me?

Yes Skatie chick, it is really annoying, and I hjave often seen police cars following card that clearly aren't trams/buses/taxis going down there and through Hillsborough. The option that you suggested adds another mile onto the trip and countless sets of traffic lights, so until they properly start to enforce the tram gates people will continue to go down that way.

I have to own up to being one of the people who regularly drive through the tram gates.

I think the tram gates are ridiculous. They push traffic onto more residential roads, they cause cars to make longer journeys thus adding more polution to the area. I'll continue to drive through them until I am fined and then I'll probably stop.

I always park in Morrisons when I visit Hillsborough. Why park anywhere else - it's convenient for both the Tram stops and Hillsborough shops.

I never drive through the tram gate, but in my opinion it's the worst bit of traffic regulation I've ever seen. Not just because you can't drive directly through Hillsborough, but also because the route it supposedly takes you isn't clearly marked, and makes it easy to get completely lost. A 30 second trip across the junction turns into a 15 minute mystery tour around the residential back streets!

Yes Ravager, I agree, the signs coming along Langsett Road just past the Maplin store are appalling - no wonder so many people don't notice it! For me as a resident on that road, if I am coming from Crookes (Ripley Street), it adds on a whole mile if you turn right at the lights and then left down onto the main dual carriageway, not to mention about ten more minutes queueing at lights. The other option is a left turn and what, say 100m to get down then right? No wonder so many people do it, although it doesn't exactly help tram times at rush hour when they take 10 minutes to get from Bamforth St to Hillsborough corner - it should usually take one.