Selby cabbies’ anger at road closure (From York Press)

Selby cabbies’ anger at closure of Millgate

8:11am Monday 12th July 2010 in News By Richard Harris

TAXI drivers have reacted with dismay at yet another road closure in Selby.

From today, Millgate is to be closed for five days. A spokesman for North Yorkshire County Council said the closure had been requested by Morrison Utilities so the comany could connect water supplies to a number of properties.

But Richard Collins, a driver with Station Cars, said the closure would cause yet more problems for cabs and that the general traffic situation in Selby needed addressing.

Mr Collins said: “It’s just a joke. Everything is done at the wrong time. We’ve got the school six-week holiday looming and when it runs over, which it will, it just causes no end of mayhem with traffic. We’ve got a bypass which nobody uses, we get all the wagons coming through the town and there’s just so much congestion.

”It’s just so hard for all the taxi lads, not just those from Station, to get around and then we get shouted at by customers for being late.”

When The Press contacted Morrison Utilities on Friday afternoon, no-one was available for comment.

New Street in Selby was closed for several weeks earlier this year, while motorists using the A19 have been hit with more roadworks.

Traders in the town centre have also had to deal with road closures for the last three years, with the Renaissance Project closures provoking particular anger from businesses.