Long-term roadworks are causing anger.

Ingrow residents say they are fed up with congestion caused by temporary traffic lights at the junction of Halifax Road and Haincliffe Road.

Yorkshire Water (YW), which is responsible for the work, is promising 'activity in the area very soon'.

Kathleen Hunter, of Damems Road, is one of the protestors. She points out that the lights have been in place since October when sub-contractors laying a new pipe for YW damaged the top of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway's Ingrow tunnel.

In November YW experts said they were looking at the best way of carrying out vital improvements to the water pipe under the road. They said a TV camera carried by a robot would carry out the necessary checks.

But Mrs Hunter says nothing further appears to be happening.

"I can get no sensible information from Yorkshire Water," she says. "All they'll say is there is a weight restriction on the road."

She says the situation is 'horrendous'. "No one seems to be doing anything," she complains. "The lights are there and the road is up. I want to know what they are doing about it and how long we have to put up with it. It could be there for ever."

A YW spokesman told us this week: "The contract to carry out remedial work to the inside of the tunnel is being awarded on Thursday, January 14. Until then we are not in a position to continue with our scheme to refurbish the mains in the tunnel, which form an integral part of the structure's interior.

"Once this contract is awarded we will be in a much clearer position as to where we stand. In the meantime we thank commuters and residents alike for their continued patience and we can assure them there will be activity in this area very soon."

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