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This from Philip Hawkins, St Lawrence. Ed
Are Island Roads mad? Answers to that one on the back of a postage stamp, please!
Yesterday (Thursday), Undercliff Drive was closed near the Botanic Gardens, meaning that the only access to St Lawrence was via St Lawrence Shute.
The Shute has a width limit of 6′ 6″, and a proven record of being impassable to long vehicles. Quite how anything larger than a Transit van was supposed to get to the village is a mystery?
Closed for heavy vehicle parking
What were they doing to Undercliff Drive to require its closure? NOTHING! Nothing at all.
They were re-surfacing Steephill Court Road, and using the main road as a convenient place to park their heavy equipment when not in use . . .
It remains to be seen whether the same idiocy is repeated today?
