A group of concerned residents fear their street is becoming "an accident waiting to happen" as traffic passing along it is set to increase.
Householders on Richmond Drive in Rutherglen believe that the easing of lockdown restrictions, and the possibility of people returning to office work and commuting, could see the number of vehicles using the road soar once again.
The residents have insisted for some time that the road, which is used by many motorists to get onto the M74, has too many cars travelling on it, but South Lanarkshire Council states the road is safe and that there is need for speed bumps or calming measures to be introduced.
James Aitken, who lives on Richmond Drive, has campaigned for years about it being a "rat run". He told Lanarkshire Live: "The problem started years ago. More and more cars come down from East Kilbride and use Richmond Drive to get on to the M74.
"There are thousands of cars a week, a survey estimated around 4000 a day and around 27,000 a week, and plenty of those are speeding. It's really dangerous for anyone living here and over the years we have been complaining about this. You get passed around from councillors to the police and back again.
"We would like to see speed calming measures to start with, to reduce the amount of speeding and then look at ways to push the traffic flow away from residential streets like this one."
Mr Aitken's own car was written off in 2017 after an accident on the street.
Cambuslang West councillor Ann Le Blond has been looking into the issue for a few years and hopes that traffic flow will decrease due to some workers continuing to work from home.
She said: "The council has a Road Safety Policy for the area and is working to introduce a number of road safety improvements. To that end it has been targeting those sites or routes with a history of recent injury accidents and residents in the area will see some of the improvements that have been made, such as the introduction of the new lights at Dukes Road.
"As we reopen after lockdown, we will need to monitor the situation. It is thought that more people will work from home, which may decrease traffic flow at peak times and the council will have to monitor and see if there is any change in traffic patterns.
"I am satisfied that the council is being proactive in how it is targeting hotspots and spending budget to implement the correct preventative measures to make sure that we can all navigate the roads network and also prevent casualties in the area."
Colin Park, engineering manager at South Lanarkshire Council, added: “Residents of Richmond Drive have again been in contact with the council in relation to the speed and volume of traffic and to request traffic-calming measures.
“Priorities for such features are identified through our annual assessment of locations where there is a trend of recorded injury-accidents.
“A full review of the situation has been undertaken and it remains the case that the accident record on this section of Richmond Drive does not merit further investigation into the appropriateness of traffic-calming measures.”
