2:48pm Tuesday 29th April 2008
WHEN Aldi opened their distribution depot in Neston, Wirral Council banned articulated lorries from Barnston Road and Thornton Common Road.
The result is these huge lorries have been forced onto Brimstage Road from Clatterbridge to the Gayton roundabout.
Not only are residents awakened before dawn with these juggernauts thundering past our houses, but the road itself is being destroyed.
The road surface and substructure in part is crumbling, leading to pot-holes, deep ridges, cracks and loose materials on the carriageway.
It now appears that Wirral Council have given up repairing the road and all they now do is put up signs saying the road is damaged.
This narrow country road was reconstructed only five or so years ago, but was obviously not built to carry such heavy traffic. What we need to know is why Brimstage Road was made to carry all this extra heavy traffic. Whycan't Barnston Road and Thornton Common Road share the load?
What is Wirral Council now going to do, firstly to repair Brimstage Road, then to stop the same thing happening in the future?
Duncan May,Brimstage Road,Heswall
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