Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the...
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Their views expressed at meetings I have attended have been that the current capacity of the A595 is significantly short of the demand, that consequently not enough people ARE using it, and that this is a major cause of many of the traffic problems in towns and villages along and near the route of the A595.
But the two anonymous comments on this thread are essentially implying incompatible things.
If you think that Cumbria County Council officers only tell people what they want to hear, as the comment immediately above alleges, what is the point of quoting their advice as the first comment above does?