I’VE noticed a considerable rise in cars parked poorly along many of our local roads recently.

Congestion is rightly raised in any community and so I’d like to kindly ask my fellow citizens to do everyone a very simple favour: If you have a driveway, then use it.

Don’t park immediately beyond a blind bend, straddling T-junctions or in the path of bus routes.

The last Labour council introduced pointless 20mph limits, scattered road humps everywhere, built poor quality pothole ridden road surfaces and the one thing that is always budgeted for, regardless of any level of austerity, fining motorists, whether the vehicle is moving or stationary.

If any of the above have ever inconvenienced you then the next time you park up at home think on this, somewhere there is a petty bureaucrat just waiting for an excuse to paint your roads with double yellow lines, introduce resident parking permits or some other crazy scheme, all of which will be funded by your next tax bill.

Failing that then simply use your driveway because it enables your fellow motorists to get to where they are going quicker than if they have to weave their way along every side street.

Dr Scott Marmion, Woodthorpe, York