Work to fix one of Britain’s ‘wonkiest’ roads has finally begun more than two years after it was broken up during Storm Eunice.
The B4069 at Lyneham in Wiltshire has been closed since a landslip in February 2022 that left the 330ft stretch of road like a corkscrew. The site has since become a dream for skateboarders and BMX riders practising their tricks.
Repairs have now started after council officials agreed to fix it at an estimated cost of £5 million, the BBC reported. They hope it will open to traffic again in spring 2025. More than 5,500 vehicles a day used the road before it broke up and slid 82ft downhill as the storm struck.
Contractors started clearing the site on Wednesday, with work to install a retaining wall set to get under way next week, says the Daily Telegraph.
Over the last two years, sections of the twisted remains of the road have descended further. The line of the road is now barely discernible amid the mounds of spoil from the landslip.
Wiltshire Council’s Nick Holder, who is in charge of overseeing the project, said that contractors were geared up to get the road open as soon as they could.
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