27/01/2026
This afternoon, I joined residents and business owners from Tebay to present our petition to Number 10 Downing Street, calling for changes to controversial plans to partially close Junction 38 of the M6 for four years.
Of course we absolutely agree that the work that engineers are doing to rebuild bridges across the motorway is vitally important. No one would dispute this.
However, the disruption set to be caused by these closures over the next four years will have devastating impacts.
This will include significant damage to tourism in both the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, as well as huge delays for people living in Tebay, Orton, Grayrigg, and other villages near the junction, and to local businesses in the area. And it will see motorway traffic being diverted through the already under-strain Kendal and Kirkby Stephen town centres.
Building temporary slip roads would keep the junction open, reduce these enormous impacts, and allow this essential project to still go ahead.
