(04 Sep 2014, 7:23 pm)R838PRG wrote Roads also need to be clear for fire engines and ambulances.

I haven't travelled on the 71 since it stopped serving Sunderland however the comment regarding emergency vehicles reminded me of something.

Where I live, one end of the street is a dead end and a few months back someone in the dead end area needed an ambulance - due to parked cars, the ambulance needed to stop have way down the street and the paramedics to walk up to the house. The same happened when my wife needed an ambulance and again the ambulance needed to park halfway down the street. Had a fire engine try to come up the street before - hit a cars wing mirror then gave up. The council did sod all when I contacted them. However (now sort off bus related) match days at the stadium with parked along Southwick Road and the council recently introduced parking permits. However it didn't seem to have much impact but the traffic wardens (or civil enforcement officers) were out in force and no doubt made a fortune.

I grew up in Silksworth and used to live on Davison Avenue. The roads were not massive as it was a housing estate we still had buses going round there (132, 129? and a Stagecoach service at some point - maybe the 17?). My nan lived Tunstall Bank Estate and I remember there were issues with parked cars on a few occasions (service 141 and 47?).