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The triangular check in Wrenbury-cum-Frith comes after a earlier billboard warned drivers the ‘diabolical’ state of the highway would “break your vehicles – and your soul”.

Locals – who dubbed their Cheshire village ‘Wrenbury-cum-pothole’ – mentioned the closely rutted 200m stretch of Station Road had “gone beyond a joke”.

And they supported the ironic signal, placed on the aspect of the primary thoroughfare, which reads “It’s all gone… up” with an image of rolling hills within the form of a pair of breasts.

One close by home-owner commented on Facebook: “Superb – love the humour and community resilience.”

Another added: “Someone deserves an Emmy award!”

While a 3rd mentioned: “Brilliant. I ran down that road the other day and it’s got a lot worse than I remember. Impossible for cyclists now.

“The footpath is also impassable down there. What a mess! That road and the bypassing road that takes u past the flooding to get to cholmondley.

And another simply wrote: “legendary.”

Lauren Ridgway, a mum in her 40s, beforehand mentioned the highway working by means of the village, which she has referred to as house 12 years, was barely “car-worthy”.

And she blasted her native authority, Cheshire East Council, for not doing extra to restore the highway when it first began to deteriorate roughly 5 years in the past.

She fumed: “Everybody has just got really humorous about it now because it’s beyond a joke.

“It’s absolutely horrendous. It’s been going on for years. What started off as a couple of potholes here and there is just a massive stretch now.

“It’s like a third-world country, but I think third-world country roads would actually be better. We’ve got farm tracks that are in better condition than that road.

“We have to pay road tax, our cars have to be roadworthy, but yet our roads are not car-worthy. It’s diabolical.

“You used to be able to weave around them. You can’t even do that anymore because the potholes are joined up, and they are quite deep.

“They have promised us that work is going to start in April. But I don’t know whether that will actually happen any more – bearing in mind Cheshire East Council, we’re told, has gone bankrupt.”

Rob Cooper, 42, who owns native storage RC Autos within the village additionally mentioned that the variety of motorists needing repairs for broken tyres had elevated dramatically.

And whereas he was seeing a bump in enterprise, he additionally mentioned common clients have been postpone from coming to see him as they have been reluctant to drive on the crater-hit highway.

He had beforehand mentioned: “I’m doing no finish in blowouts and tyres which were pinched by potholes. It’s simply infinite.

“I’d usually do three of 4 tyres each couple of weeks. At the minute, I’m doing three or 4 tyres a day. It’s huge, it’s loopy, actually.

“I’m really dropping just a few clients as a result of they aren’t coming over that highway.

“It’s fairly unfair, actually, as a result of I’m solely a small enterprise, I would like that repeat enterprise to return in… Everybody within the village is sick of it.

Councillor Craig Browne, chair of Cheshire East Council’s highways and transport committee, mentioned that repairs can be carried out in April after the final protest.

He had commented: “Naturally, we’re totally conscious of the situation of Station Road in Wrenbury and agree that it requires resurfacing.

“There can be a £600,000 scheme beginning in April, which is able to considerably enhance drainage to this location.

“The solely different to ready till April can be to resurface now at an extra price of £65,000 solely to have to do that once more after the completion of the first works.

“With our present budgetary constraints, that is merely not reasonably priced. Additionally, all works must be agreed in partnership with the Environment Agency and Network Rail.

“We apologise to residents and highway customers and wish to guarantee them that we’re prioritising this work being carried out as safely and in as well timed a manner as doable.”

Cheshire East Council Has been approached for additional remark.