Forest roadworks cost garage £45K in trade

ROADWORKS have cost Forest Road Garage £45,000, its managing director said yesterday.

After six weeks of diversions, Forest Road, the main route to the airport, is due to open today or tomorrow - and businesses say it cannot come soon enough.

Forest Road Garage MD Dale Crowsley (pictured) said that since the work began his business, which employs 25 staff, had lost on average of about £1,000 a day.

'Whilst I understand the need to do roadworks it's had a massive effect on our business,' he said. 'Losing £1,000 a day is not an insignificant amount but we've just had to deal with it.'

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