\n The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway says Anglian Water repaired a water main on Stiffkey Road in Wells but left a digger and temporary traffic lights in place after the work was completed.\n<\/p>\n
\n The narrow-gauge heritage line connects Wells and Walsingham and runs for about four miles through the countryside.\n<\/p>\n
\n Although the digger has since been removed, the traffic management remains, causing long tailbacks and preventing drivers from turning into or out of the railway.\n<\/p>\n
\n The traffic lights before the digger was removed. (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n
\n Nick Champion, the railway\u2019s managing director, has blasted the traffic lights as “unnecessary” and “unprofessional”.\n<\/p>\n
\n He says the disruption has already cost the business several thousand pounds as it was forced to close while the water main was initially repaired.\n<\/p>\n
\n Though Anglian Water\u2019s system says that further work is still required at the site, Mr Champion believes this simply relates to removing the traffic lights.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cEveryone\u2019s facing a hard time at the moment.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWhat we really didn\u2019t need was something that unnecessarily causes delays and congestion.\n<\/p>\n
\n The traffic lights are directly outside the attraction. (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cPeople who want to turn into our entrance can\u2019t because there\u2019s queuing traffic.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s so frustrating when everyone\u2019s trying to earn a crust. It\u2019s the last big weekend of the season, a bank holiday weekend, and Anglian Water, who supposedly love every drop, don\u2019t seem to care.\n<\/p>\n
\n “They are effectively causing traffic disruption on a Bank Holiday weekend with traffic lights doing nothing at all.\n<\/p>\n
\n ” You couldn\u2019t make this level of ineptitude and poor planning and coordination up.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It would be funny if it wasn\u2019t such an inconvenience to our business and affecting the visitors and residents of Wells.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Anglian Water have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway says Anglian Water repaired a water main on Stiffkey Road in Wells…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-754905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}