\u00a0<\/a>attend they promise to stop and do so for a couple of weeks then it\u2019s just back to business as usual.<\/p>\n\u201cI hope council officers take enforcement action\u00a0against these traders – enough is enough.\u2019<\/p>\n
Mr Hussain said of the pavement obstructions: \u201cThere is a little gap. Anyone with a pushchair or in a wheelchair wouldn\u2019t be able to get through because of the obstruction.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe produce shouldn\u2019t be on the pavement. This is a main busy shopping area, you have thousands of people coming into Birmingham.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not a good advertisement. The traders should be considerate towards the pedestrians, especially those in wheelchairs and buggies.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have seen this a few times but that\u2019s probably the worst one I have seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Birmingham City Council has been approached for comment about the issue, which has been highlighted in the past.<\/p>\n
They previously stated in October: “Officers have been monitoring Stratford Road on a weekly basis and while there is some slight encroachment on the pavement, the risk to pedestrians is considered to be low.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main issue at present appears to be with kerbside deliveries and the time taken to remove delivered goods from the highway.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, we will continue to monitor the situation closely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The council have warned traders over time about leaving their fruit and veg pallets on road pavements. Pedestrians including parents with buggies, the visually impaired and wheelchair users are being forced to use the main road as piles of fresh produce are stacked high on both sides of the narrow walkway on Stratford Road. Despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}