HAVING read Albert Ross's letter ('People should think more about parking', Bury Times, December 29, 2005) I have to completely disagree with him.

Why should people, like myself, who live in a terraced house not park their cars in front of their house?

Our cars are taxed and insured and are legal to be on the road. It is not as if we're parked on double yellows or blocking someone's driveway.

Mr Ross needs to realise that not everyone is privileged with a driveway or garage and that just because us mere mortals live in a terraced house it doesn't mean we can't own a car.

If Mr Ross is that bothered about our cars maybe he could put his money where his moaning mouth is and pay for us to have a nice car park at the end of our streets or try sticking to the main roads when commuting instead of using our streets as a rat run (which has more serious consequences than the street being swept, as more people are run over and killed by impatient drivers who can't wait in traffic on the main roads) and that way we won't be causing him any more obstruction, will we?

Proud to live in a terraced house, Radcliffe