We always welcome a Letter to the Editor to share with our readers. If you have something you’d like to share, get in touch. This letter from a local resident in the area. Ed
Early on Saturday 7th June, Lower Road, Adgestone was closed both ends where it passes through Adgestone Lynch. Residents were pleased, having waited eagerly for years for this busy, but disastrously decaying, public road to be repaired.
In spite of a variety of complaints over this time and the usual response of poorly filling the worst holes, the road surface is now in an appalling state. Cars have been grounding on the many potholes, the surface is subsiding and the road is falling away along one edge in several places.
Well over a week after the signs appeared, nothing has happened – apart from sandbags arriving to stop frustrated locals removing the barriers and continuing to edge through.
Important local link
This road is an important local link for residents, farmers and visitors who are touring the East Yar valley, but the closure seems not to have been listed in the daily bulletins. It is also affecting local services being the route used between villages for the Post Office and refuse collection vehicles.
Visitors are also frustrated as there is no advance warning of the closure until they reach it, nor are there any diversion advice signs to help them.
There is an alternative, but we do hope Island Road’s plan is not to expect cars, lorries, horses, tourist caravans, tractors and delivery vehicles to squeeze past one another or – when they meet at the wrong point – reverse around blind corners on the very narrow and hilly Upper Road? This is manifestly not a viable long term alternative.
So what is happening?
Can someone say:
- Is there an intention or a timetable to repair Lower Road at Adgestone Lynch?
- Has a road closure order been issued?
- If yes, then why is it not in the daily bulletins?
- Why is it so inadequately signed?
Lower Road needs to be restored to public use.
Or could it be we are seeing the Undercliff situation quietly being allowed to develop here too?
With regards
