Rain turned a York bus stop into a mini-lake – and some are blaming recent repairs to the road.
The water started gathering at the stop on Hull Road on Sunday after a downpour. The problem followed recent repairs made to a sunken roadside gully.
Liberal Democrat activist Andrew Mortimer said the ‘lake’ left the Windmill Lane stop underwater, leading to fears that a bus pulling in would drench waiting passengers.
City of York Council head of highways asset management Steve Wragg said his team were currently working to resolve the problem and apologised for any inconvenience caused.
It comes after works to raise the height of the gulley, which lies in the middle of the bus lay-by, earlier this month.
That followed concerns for the safety of cyclists and other road users who previously had to pull out into a busy stretch of Hull Road to get around it.
Council workers have raised the height of the gulley and patched the road surface.
But the Liberal Democrats said a heavy overnight downpour on Sunday (22 September) had left the lay-by flooded.
Activist Mr Mortimer said that while they welcomed works to raise the gulley, those repairs appeared to have backfired.
The Liberal Democrat said: “The area was underwater on Monday morning, with a lake forming that completely filled the bus pull-in and spread on to the main part of Hull Road.
“With more heavy rain forecast it is important that the problem is sorted quickly.”
A yellow warning for rain covering York is in place for most of today (Wednesday).
Council highways asset lead Mr Wragg said: “Works were recently undertaken to address defects in the highway level at this location which were causing problems for cyclists and other road users.
“While the gulley cover level and the immediate connecting pipework were altered as part of this work, a pre-existing blockage has since been identified with the wider connecting pipework and our team is currently working to resolve this problem.”