Residents living close to Oxford railway station are objecting to the removal of more parking spaces from outside their homes.
Network Rail has been working on a £237m scheme to revamp Oxford station and a result Botley Road has been closed at the rail bridge since April 2023.
Contractors are on schedule to reopen the road by the end of August.
READ MORE: Update from Network Rail on Botley Road
As a result on ongoing work in Botley Road, since last year buses have been diverted to Abbey Road, Cripley Road and Cripley Place.
Some residents' parking was suspended as a result of the diversion and now the county council has said it will remove the two-hour parking bay on the west side of Cripley Road, north of its junction with Botley Road and 7.5 metres of the existing permit holders only parking bay.
Both will be replaced with new 'no waiting at any time' restrictions - double yellow lines.
The proposal is recommended for approval at the cabinet member for transport meeting on July 16.
However, council officers said the 7.5 metres of residents' parking might not have to be removed as it would not conflict with vehicles entering or leaving the station.
One resident who objected said: "Current parking on Abbey/Cripley Road is a disaster due to removal of spaces for bus traffic.
"Losing further spaces would be a final blow from the council to this already beleaguered community."
Another added: "As a Cripley Road resident who has, due to the incompetence of the station development and the council's complete indifference to the intolerable conditions imposed on residents of Cripley Road for the last three years, the proposal to reduce the already inadequate parking is completely unreasonable.
"The failure to control illegal drop offs/unpermitted parking since the bus diversion suggests that residents will simply be unable to park, as unpermitted vehicles will continue, as they currently do in high volumes, to make station drop offs."
At the same meeting the cabinet member for transport Gareth Epps will note the height restriction of the new rail bridge, which was installed in February,
Network Rail confirmed in April that some HGVs will not be able to fit beneath the new rail bridge.
City councillor Susanna Pressel said at the time she had received confirmation from the county council's highways department that the new bridge, although higher, will still not be high enough to take the very tallest HGVs.
"That means we may again get large vehicles stuck underneath it and/or forced to turn around in Mill Street or Abbey Road," she added.
"To try and prevent this, there will be plenty of warning signs on the ring road, and I asked them to inform the satnav companies as well."
Ms Pressel said residents and businesses have "been through hell" since the road was closed at the rail bridge.
Work to create a new western entrance for the station and a new platform to boost East West Rail links has not yet been fully funded.
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