14/10/2026
Good evening Douglas!
Stolen from a mate but this sums up how most of us feel…
I would like to highlight that this road closure has been an absolute disgrace on the councils part. It has caused sheer disruption to the local community which we understand was going to happen to an extent. Your article says that no HGV’s were to use this road yet there has been numerous instances where articulated HGV’s have met on the cornels entry forcing someone to reverse blind around a corner. This road is not suitable for a commercial van never mind a 44T HGV. The lack of a proper traffic management system being in place during night hours is appalling, surely a temporary traffic lighting system would have been a better measure?. As i said we understand this was going to cause disruption one way or another which is fine, but there could have been a better system in place for this considering this has forced traffic off of a main A road on to a single track road with blind corners. South Lanarkshire Council