St Bees road closure

The main road through St Bees has been closed to vehicles for over a week now as a result of a gas leak. This must be an enormous inconvenience to residents of the village, it has certainly been a major annoyance to e while I have been campaigning in the village during the election.

The road closure  does not appear to have had a catastrophic effect on turnout in the village in today's election, although some voters have been saying that having to drive round the countryside to get to the other end of the village has been rather a pain.

 Perhaps Northern Gas nee to provide villagers with more information if they can't find and fix the problem soon. The road closure and knock-on effects have also highlighted issues with rhe road network in the area including capacity and safety issues which I will wish to take up if elected.

Comments

Jim said…
Traffic to/from sellafield has been bad because of it.

Is the road closed to pedestrians there too? - just wondering why people would drive around rather then just walk on a nice day?
Chris Whiteside said…
No, it's closed to cars but not to pedestrians. A lot of people have parked their cars at or near the station and walked.

But the impact on the roads around has been pretty bad.

Rumour in the village is that the road might be closed for weeks.

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