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Jan
Kex Gill work to start tomorrow
Work is due to start tomorrow (January 16) to reopen the A59 at Kex Gill.
North Yorkshire Council has appointed Harrogate-based contractor, HACS, to carry out the work following a landslip in the early hours of New Year’s Day.
According to a council statement this afternoon, work will be completed by January 29 unless there are any “unforeseen delays”.
The project will include removing more than 2,000 tonnes of debris which has slipped down from the slope, as well as installing 50 metres of new drainage channels and introducing about 100 tonnes of clean stone to stabilise the area.
Cllr Keane Duncan, the council’s executive member for highways and transportation, said:
Recent snowfall and sub-zero temperatures unfortunately impacted the works, so I know it will be very welcome news that these can now safely commence.
This is the latest in a long list of unplanned and disruptive landslips on the road at Kex Gill. It once again emphasises the importance of delivering our £68 million project to bypass this problematic stretch, which will ensure future disruption can be avoided.
This highways project, our most ambitious ever, is progressing well and we expect the realignment scheme to be completed next year.
The stretch of the A59 at Kex Gill, which is on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park between Skipton and Blubberhouses, near Harrogate, has a history of landslips with 15 incidents since 2000 alone.
A new four-kilometre stretch of road is being created, replacing an existing part of the A59 which has been affected by the landslips.
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