Police are defending the decision to make the Mountain Road one-way during TT fortnight.
The system was first introduced four years ago as a safety measure to reduce the likelihood of head-on collisions.
A series of accidents on the road, which has no speed limit, has prompted suggestions it is effectively converted into a race track for bikers for two weeks of the year.
Inspector Derek Flint insists that's not the case:

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