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Road closure update

by isleofman.com 21st January 2013

The Department of Infrastructure has confirmed the following roads will remain closed until at least 5pm tomorrow (Tuesday).

Mountain Road (Hairpin to Creg-ny-Baa) and those leading on to it.
Specifically the: Brandywell Road; Sulby Glen Road; Beinn-y-Phott Road and Injebreck.

Other roads closed include the Sloc, Shoulder Road and Patrick to the Roundtable.

A large percentage of the network has been treated today (Monday), however, the situation will be carefully monitored overnight with gritting teams on stand-by to respond as necessary.

Teams will be delpoyed onto the Mountain Road tomorrow (Tuesday) morning and will try to get it open as soon as possible. The road still has significant amounts of snow on it, with snowfall between 200 & 300mm in places and drifts up to 1.2m deep.

The Department would like to thank the public for their patience it what has proved to be an extremely busy period over the past few days.

Posted by isleofman.com
Monday 21st, January 2013 05:24pm.

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