Ina Kennedy said she would be inconvenienced by the new measures, especially as her husband is disabled and has a designated parking bay outside their Fairbairn Street home.

As a result of the road closures, he will have to park his car elsewhere.

“It think it’s ridiculous,” Mrs Kennedy said. “It’s bad enough at the moment that they tell us to stay on the south side of the road when matches are on — sometimes coaches come down and sometimes they don’t.

“My husband is disabled and although he would manage having to park elsewhere, it’s annoying.”

Coaches were being parked on the former Densfield Works site, which is off Tannadice Street, but that is no longer possible as the land is being redeveloped.

Couple Martin Rippon and Catriona McKenzie said they were angry they would now have to plan when people would come to visit around the new traffic system.

Ms McKenzie said, “If we have relatives visiting, most do drive but they are from different places and wouldn’t know where else to park locally.

“We’ve bought our home and should be able to park outside it. I don’t go to football so I don’t know why I have to re-schedule my life because there’s a match on.”

Another resident, Steven McDade, said, “A few weeks ago when there was a match on people were parking on the north side of Fairbairn Street and parking attendants put penalty notices on all of them, although there were a few traffic cones.

“If you live next to a football pitch, you have to expect some disturbance on match days.

“The other thing is, though, that coaches parking here means we’re going to have more fans urinating in the closes — we’ve had that before.”

Dundee City Council has given the go-ahead for preparation of a traffic regulation order to ban vehicles other than football coaches from Fairbairn Street and Neish Street when matches are on at the grounds.

Planning and transpor-tation director Mike Galloway said in a report the area around Dens and Tannadice had for some time endured serious disruption and congestion on match days.

James McLellan of Fairbairn Street agreed traffic problems have long been an issue in the area.

“I actually came home in a taxi once when a match was on and they weren’t even letting taxis up Fairbairn Street.

“This all started when Gussie Park was turned into football pitches as coaches used to be able to park there.

“Lots of people are going to be annoyed as they are going to have to move their cars. It’s terrible.”

Anne Lindsay said, “A lot of people who live here have cars, as well as a lot of elderly folk.

“I don’t have a car but I don’t see why the streets should be closed because they need to get buses up and down just for a football match.”

However, another resident added that there was no point in complaining about the new arrangements, as once the local authority and police have made such a decision there is little that can be done about it.