Work on road resurfacing continues in Kendal town centre tonight, with another stretch of road being closed for the next four nights.
The work began last week, and is being done between 6pm and half-past midnight every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday until the 7th of July.
From tonight, up to and including Thursday night, Stramongate will be shut between the pedestrian crossing outside the Daniel Gray hair salon to a controlled pedestrian crossing opposite Holy Trinity and St George’s Catholic Church.
Councillor Keith Little, Cumbria County Council Cabinet member for highways, said: “We’re very aware that these roads in Kendal need attention and we were planning to do this essential maintenance works before the December floods, which have now caused further damage.
"The council is investing more than £320,000 in this scheme which will make a big difference to road surfaces in the town and provide much smoother journeys for drivers.
“The resurfacing work will start after the teatime rush hour to help minimise the impact on the town. We will need to close roads in the evenings to do the work which will cause some short term disruption, but we would ask people to bear with us and allow a small amount of extra time for their journeys.
"Works of this nature will inevitably be noisy at times, so we’ll be working hard with our contractor to get the job done as quickly as possible and we apologise for any inconvenience during this period.”
The remaining work is being phased as follows (dates weather dependent and subject to change):
Monday 13th – Thursday 16th June – Pedestrian crossing outside Daniel Gray to controlled pedestrian crossing opposite Holy Trinity and St George’s Catholic Church
Monday 20th – Thursday 23rd June – Kirkland to Peppercorn Lane Car Park
Monday 27th & Tuesday 28th June - Peppercorn Lane Car Park to Captain French Lane
Wednesday 29th & Thursday 30th June - New Inn – Town Hall Cross Roads
Monday 4th & Tuesday 5th July - Captain French Lane – New Inn
Wednesday 6th & Thursday 7th July - All Hallows Lane / Lowther Street Cross Roads