"They need to sort this much faster" - Residents react to update on Elland Road repairs

Following heavy rain and flooding experienced during Storm Ciara in February 2020, a landslip occurred requiring a full closure of the A6025, Park Road, Elland, a major route between Brighouse and Elland.

Calderdale Council recently gave an update on repairs to the road, stating that they would be completed in Spring 2021.

This is what residents had to say on the news:

Sharon Brook: They need to sort this much faster it’s a major route into and out of Brighouse and is causing massive increases in traffic in much more built up areas in particular past a primary school on an already narrow and difficult to navigate road

Margaret Langlois Newton: The Council need to rethink building a ‘White Elephant Enterprise Park’ in Brighouse - thus saving Millions of pounds - We don’t need more traffic on our already busy roads !!!!

Peter Reynolds: With the traffic having to go the longer route using more fuel therefore more pollution shows there is no such thing as a green council the same thing applies with Elland tip longer journeys to other tips and more fly tipping how about making local councillors pick up the fly tipped rubbish and putting it outside their houses.

Donna Johnson: It fascinates me where they get these prices from. Everything these days costs millions, and seems to take forever to get sorted!

Robert Taylor: 2.25 million and Spring 2021 who’s betting the final bill will be at least double that and finish at least 6 months late. The Council needs to stick rigidly to a fixed time/term contract only to be paid on timely completion any delays over spend no payment

Martyn Johnson: A joke could of been 4 month in now, prob do it then dig sections up to repair pipes etc etc.

Sam Farrell: If this was anywhere down south it would of been done already. Its an embarrassment to our local council.

Simon Eaton-Walker: The Council are far too busy resurfacing roads that don’t need resurfacing to give this matter their full attention. We are experiencing large numbers of calls. You are number 942 in the queue .... Why not visit our website, spend forever writing your concerns to us, then we won’t bother to respond ...... Sound familiar?!!

Jonathan Fenton: What happens if/when there’s a a major motorway incident and they all spill over

Penny Jowett: Makes me laugh China had whole road and bridge washed away took them 1 week to fix and reopen! Here they still having meetings about it (got to justify their pay grade) it’s a joke lol just get it sorted

Bernie Clarke: A classic example of decentralising decisions that should be financed and planned at local level. The Government seem to think they can cover every eventuality from Westminster, well they can’t. They prefer to dole out money for London and southern projects, leaving the rest of the country’s infrastructure to fail. It is about time we had a reversal of decisions made in the past to our detriment.