Victoria Atkins MP today spoke for up local residents in Parliament stating “Every day this summer, my constituents, tourists and I had to wait up to 45 minutes to pass through the traffic lights at the Bull Ring in Horncastle, where the very busy A153 crosses the even busier A158.”
Victoria told the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, the Rt Hon John Hayes MP that “The single carriageway road cannot cope with the volume of traffic between the city of Lincoln, the market town of Louth and the east coast.”
The Minister was concerned to hear of the transport issues in Horncastle, which he understands well as a fellow Lincolnshire MP, and offered to meet Victoria and local councilors with his officials to examine solutions to the bottleneck in traffic jams.
“I am pleased to hear that the Minister listened to my concerns” said Victoria afterwards. “What I want to do is let the Minister know local people’s views on how to resolve these traffic jams. I therefore invite residents and businesses affected by these traffic jams to write to me with their views”
Please email Victoria on [email protected].