FED-up motorists say that Worcester traffic wardens are preying on cars in a city street, where they say there are no signs showing restrictions or double yellow lines.

Paul Bourke said he watched in disbelief as one traffic warden booked a disabled driver as he struggled to move his car after the restrictions in Friar Street were pointed out to him.

Mr Bourke said it was outrageous that drivers were receiving tickets when there were no signs along the road pointing out that parking was restricted.

"I think this is quite awful," he said. "There's nothing highlighting the fact that parking is restricted, so drivers park there in all innocence and come back to find they have a ticket.

"As I walking to the cinema after moving my car I watched a traffic warden put a ticket on a car being driven by a disabled man who was putting his wheelchair in the back of it.

''Like me, I'm sure that driver thought he had parked legally."

The 55-year-old, of Blackfriars Avenue, Droitwich, claims he parked on the new cobbled area of the street on Monday while he went into the new Warner Brothers Cinema at the end of the road to buy vouchers.

But he added that he noticed tickets on other cars, so looked for a sign.

"The only find one I could see was on the corner of College Street and Friar Street and it is very easy to miss," he said

"Therefore I don't think it's reasonable to give tickets."

Margaret Phillpotts, who has a disabled sticker on her car for when she carries her 96-year-old mother, said she was booked for parking on the street, but a van parked in a disabled space was not.

"Something should be done to show parking is restricted," she said.

"It's not clear what restrictions are in place. Surely the police could put cones out or something."

PC Danian Lowe said traffic wardens enforced the law but the local council was responsible for the road markings and signs.

But Tom Comerford, senior engineer at Worcester Transport Partnership, said the road was in a controlled zone, like The Shambles and Mealcheapen Street.

"The zone is restricted parking except for roads which have a P sign," he said.

"This has been in operation in the cobbled areas in The Shambles and Mealcheapen Street for 10 years."