Grandmother, 75, feels ‘trapped’ after bus-stop installed at the end of her drive

Parvinder Webra says she has no freedom to leave her home (Picture: Belinda Jiao for Metro.co.uk)

An elderly widow has said she wants a bus stop outside her front door removed because it is making her life a misery.

Parvinder Webra, 75, says she has no freedom and that the 14 buses an hour revving up and down her road are stopping her from getting any sleep.

She even said she missed an appointment for a cancer operation after a bus broke down blocking her from getting out of her drive.

The grandmother from Richmond, west London, said she feels like she can’t leave her home because buses leave her ‘trapped’ in her driveway.

The bus stop is between 614 and 616 Hanworth Road and serves routes 110 and 111. 

The ‘bus stop’ space marked onto the road is directly in front of Mrs Webra’s driveway and the bus stop shelter is situated between the two houses. 

The buses frequently break down or sit idle, meaning Parvinder cannot drive anywhere (Picture: Belinda Jiao)

She claims passengers waiting at the stop throw glass on her driveway and ring her doorbell asking to use her toilet.

Ms Webra told Metro the stop has meant she has in the past missed important deliveries, family events and medical appointments – including a breast cancer operation.

She told Metro: ‘In 2019 my son was going to take me to a breast cancer operation, but there was a bus broken down outside my home.

‘I had to ring to rearrange and it was weeks before I got my next appointment.’

There are up to 14 buses every hour – around one every four minutes – which run throughout the night.

The bus stop was installed in 1999 around 20 years after Parvinder bought her home with her husband.

Now ‘intimidating’ passengers use her driveway to wait for the next bus to come along, she said.

Parvinder has pleaded with Transport for London to move the bus stop (Picture: Belinda Jiao)

She said: ‘I used to phone the police every week.

‘People will smoke outside into the night and keep me awake, there has been broken glass which punctured my car tyre, and one time I had to report human faeces left on my wall.’

The stress of the bus stop has only made the grandmother more unwell, as in 2015 she was diagnosed with high blood pressure.

Only a few weeks ago the medication to manage her blood pressure was increased.

She said: ‘My health is suffering, I am not well. I also have asthma and cannot open my doors or windows during warmer weather because of smokers, traffic pollution and security implications.

‘No one seems to care I can’t get on with my life, I have felt trapped for the last 30 years and now I am a widow living all on my own.

Parvinder is unable to drive anywhere if buses sit idle at the stop (Picture: Parvinder Webra)

‘People have told me to move house, but why should I?

‘I am 75 years old, I don’t want to move and leave behind the memories of my late husband and my son who died a few years ago as well.’

Parvinder has even damaged her car after a little boy ran around her driveway as she tried to pull out.

She said: ‘I had to swerve out the way because the boy’s mum wasn’t paying attention. I had spent £27,000 on the car just weeks before, but they cost me £1,000 to repair it.

‘The parent didn’t care though, they all just got on the bus leaving me with the damage.’

The damage to Parvinder’s car after a child ran around her driveway (Picture: Parvinder Webra)

Parvinder, with the help of family friend Nick Dexter, has been pleading with Transport for London to move the bus stop.

But they said the transport authority told them it would create problems for traffic.

Nick said: ‘The bus stop should never have been built here in the first place, as the house has always had a dropped kerb.

‘These are not usually seen as compatible with bus stops, yet Parvinder is expected to keep suffering.’

Transport for London has declined to comment.

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