Road awakening

The 30-year-old says she is woken up at 5am every day by trucks thundering past her house in Wetherby Road.

Frustrated at council inaction, she has now invited an officer along to assess the full extent of the problem.

"It's the only way I can prove how badly my bed vibrates," she told the Evening Press.

"The house shakes so much it feels like an aeroplane going overhead."

Amanda, who lives with her partner, Steven, step-daughter and disabled mother, has launched a petition to get the road resurfaced and speed restrictions put in place.

She claims the road is subsiding because it has never been updated to cope with the extra lorries that are using it now.

Amanda, who moved into the house last year, said the council insisted there was nothing more that could be done, and that the only suggestion was for her to move out.

"My neighbours have been trying to get something done about it for years," she said.

Resident Tony Stabler said: "It's a problem we all experience. My ornaments rattle when the trucks go past.

"Clearly the answer is not to allow that weight of traffic along Wetherby Road. It simply wasn't built to take it."

Amanda said: "My disabled mother was going to buy a special vibrating bed but says she doesn't need to bother now."

"My sleep is suffering badly."

A spokeswoman for City of York Council said it was continuing to investigate what if anything could be done to improve matters.

"We visited Miss Potter's home following her initial complaint," said the spokeswoman.

"We've carried out work to improve the road near the homes of Ms Potter and her neighbours as a result of surveys done

at that time, but we understand that she doesn't feel the work has solved the problem and we're continuing to look at what more can be done."

The spokeswoman declined to comment about Mrs Potter's invitation for an officer to spend the morning at her home.

Updated: 11:02 Thursday, February 27, 2003