A mum was forced to tip her pram on its side to get around cars parked on the pavement.
Elke Weissmann, 47, said the amount of cars parking on pavements around Wavetree has gotten so bad it's forcing pedestrians to walk in the road. Elke, who is a lecturer at Edge Hill University, said the situation is particularly problematic for wheelchair users and people with prams.
The 47-year-old took to Twitter to share a video of her walking around Wavetree with a stuffed toy in a pram to show just how difficult it can be to pass illegally parked cars on the pavement.
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Elke told the ECHO: "It's something that's been bugging me for a while and I think it's getting worse, partly because the cars are getting bigger.
"It's the fact that they take up so much space that if there's a pedestrian coming from one side, the pedestrian coming from the other direction has to wait. I have two children who are nine and five, but when they were still in prams so often I had to go into the road.
"I think for anyone with a pram or a wheelchair it's really really problematic."
The video shows cars parked up on the kerb on roads around Wavertree as Elke tried to squeeze past them with a pram. In one part of the video, she has to tilt the pram on its side to get past a car that's parked on double yellow lines.
Sharing her motivation for the video, Elke said: "We are campaigning for better infrastructure, both in terms of public transport and in terms of cycling and walking.
I've had moments where people were driving onto the kerb at the same time I was walking past it with my children and that felt really dangerous.
There are streets where you can't walk on the pavement. You can't walk on the pavement on Orford Street, and I understand how this is to do with its age and most hedges are too far into the pavement.
"But what I find really problematic is when it becomes so normal that cars are parked on the pavement so much that you really have to go into the road - it shouldn't have to be that way."
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