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Maidstone emergency roadworks cause pub chaos
KentOnline / KMTV
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24/04/2025
The Swan Inn lost out on Easter bank holiday revenue while motorists have faced diversions and disruption.
Oliver Leader de Saxe reports.
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Empty chairs and emergency repairs. It was last Friday that gas distributor SGN closed the busy
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A229 running into Maidstone to carry out essential work. Before the Swan Inn already reeling from a
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challenging year for hospitality, diverted routes and reduced footfall over the bank holiday have
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been a big hit. It's been a nightmare you know you're expecting a good normal bank holiday weekend
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and basically we've had nothing we've had nobody it's been very quiet we're probably 40% plus down
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on ourselves things are tight as they are and it's done us no favours whatsoever. Uncertainty hangs in
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the air here while some residents might welcome the peace and quiet others are concerned about how
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long all of this is going to last with no set date for when the gasworks are going to end. That's what
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we're getting all day is everybody coming down here ignoring all the signs that are saying the road's
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closed and then get in there here and turn him around. I mean they're forever digging this road
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up doing some repair or other now they've you know it seems to be shut permanently. It's understood the
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works are expected to be finished by Monday but some fear the road could be closed as late as May the 6th.
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Oliver, Leader of the Sanks for KMTV in Maidstone.
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