I NOTICE in Tuesday’s Echo you carried an article saying tickets for pavement parking are issued at approximately one per week.

On the previous page, you carried a report of a pedestrian being seriously injured by a car on Charminster Avenue.

This road alone has dozens of cars parked almost entirely on the pavement. This style of parking increases the usable width of the road and leads to higher average speeds. Indeed, further up where it becomes Malvern Road, there are signs saying ‘please slow down for children’ and a crossing has had to be installed next to the play-park.

Stricter enforcement of pavement parking would result in natural traffic calming and could very well have prevented the accident. It would certainly make the road more pleasant to live on and walk down.

Don’t these residents realise they are ruining their own neighbourhood as well as putting people’s lives at risk?

MIKE CHALKLEY, Cowper Road, Bournemouth