MHK asking if Peel Road works meet required standards

Tue, 11 Mar 2014

Douglas North MHK Bill Henderson will seek to find out if the Peel Road works meet the set of required standards and are still expected to be finished on time.

He’ll be putting the question to Infrastructure Minister, Laurence Skelly, in today’s House of Keys sitting.

On the topic of road repairs Mr Henderson says he has been calling on government to introduce a strategic scheme to identify the areas of highway in most urgent need of repair.

Speaking to the station he says he blames previous administrations for failure to identify essential road works, branding it negligence: