A man, who declined to be named, said his former partner lived in Rutherford St, Caversham, and he visited every day to see his daughter.
He believed the street was seen by many drivers as a short-cut which avoided the traffic lights on South Rd.
Others coming out of the car park at Mitchell’s Tavern and the Caversham Medical Centre were also culprits.
He said he frequently saw drivers travelling more than 50kmh down the street the wrong way.
"Within an hour, I saw five cars going the wrong way down the street. It’s unreal.
He said he witnessed a violent altercation about six weeks ago, when a young man travelling the wrong way down the street had to stop because another driver coming the other way blocked his path.
"A guy tried to take the law into his own hands by stopping the young guy.
"He abused the young driver, and when the young driver told him to ‘go get [expletive]’, the guy went into his boot, pulled out a tyre iron and smashed the young guy’s windscreen.
"People are getting angry about it."
He said one resident had been talking about building some homemade road spikes and tying them between two power poles.
"It’s getting a bit lawless."
He said he could not blame residents for being upset about the bad driving.
"I see old people on these mobility scooters having to drive on the road because people have parked on the footpath.
"If a car comes down the road the wrong way, people on their mobility scooters won’t see them coming and they’ll get collected."
He believed traffic calming measures such as speed humps could help because they would deter people from using the street as a high speed short-cut.
A police spokeswoman said road safety was the responsibility of all road users and advised witnesses of dangerous driving to report it immediately via *555.
"All motorists should follow the road rules at all times for their safety and the safety of others."
She said a variety of tools could be used to improve poor driver behaviour, such as education, enforcement and road engineering and signs.
"These are tools that may be considered by police and our road safety partners to addresses issues in Rutherford St."
