Gritters were blocked by parked cars at Tockholes

11:37am Friday 1st February 2013 in Darwen

TOCKHOLES Parish Council has addressed concerns that roads in the village were not gritted during the recent bad weather.

Residents were worried that Old School Lane and Chapels Lane had been taken off Blackburn with Darwen Council’s gritting route. But parish councillors challenged the highways department who assured them the roads were on its route.

A spokesman said: “On several occasions the gritter could not treat certain lanes due to obstructions by parked vehicles.

“The official route for gritting Tockholes is Rock Lane, Chapels Lane, Long Lane and Old School Lane, provided is is safe to do so and there are no obstructions.”

Comments(2)

Black Car Guy. says...
5:35pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Maybe the locals should be educated on parking. Also advised when it snows gritters will be coming past and they should move their cars?

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JohnR1 says...
10:32pm Fri 1 Feb 13

Just drive on through! Any damage is the fault of the idiot parkers who have no thought whatsoever for other road users as long as they do not need to walk to their front door. Double parking is illegal, about time the police did something about it.

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