Second Mountain Road closure for spillage clean-up

Rebecca Brahde
BBC News, Isle of Man
BBC The Mountain Road looking in the northern direction. There is heathland on either side of the carriageway and a clear deep blue sky above.BBC
A section of the Mountain Road is set to be resurfaced

A section of the Isle of Man TT course will be closed for resurfacing after initial works to remove a substance spilt by a contractor were unsuccessful.

The A18 Mountain Road will be shut from the Creg Ny Baa to the Bungalow from 18:00 BST for up to 24 hours, the Department of Infrastructure (DOI) has said.

It follows efforts to plane off a bitumous material from the carriageway on Wednesday.

The DOI said work on a 689ft (210m) stretch of the Ramsey-bound lane between Brandywell and Hailwood's Rise needs to be resurfaced to fix the issue.

The Mountain Road stretching from the Bungalow through to Brandywell. It is on a sloping mountainside covered in heathland. There is a building at the Bungalow on the right with cars parked in front of it and there are three cars travelling on the road. There is a metal footbridge over the road on the left.
A section of the Mountain Road from the Bungalow to Creg Ny Baa will close

The scope of the works would mean centre line and edge line markings as well as the roadside studs would need to be taken out and reinstated as part of the works, the department said.

The department said said "every effort" would be made to re-open the route late afternoon on Friday before the evening commuter run.

To enable the works to take place, resurfacing on the New Castletown Road in Santon would be suspended for the team to be redeployed to the Mountain Road.

Temporary traffic lights in Santon would be temporarily stood down until work could resume next week, with the temporary speed limit through the work to remain in place, it added.

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