RESIDENTS have blasted new plans to split a community in two to allow wagons and lorries to zoom past bedroom windows.

Lancashire County Council is under fire once more after the latest exhibition of plans for a Heysham-M6 Link Road.

David Gate, spokesman for the protest group Transport Solutions for Lancaster and Morecambe (TSLM) says the road is even more monstrous than before.

People complained to the county about original plans for the northern link road particularly a subway. And so the council came back with a revised plan.

But TSLM says it is outraged' at the county's response, which sees the height of the road at Torrisholme increase by a further 10 feet - to around 26 feet in total.

Mr Gate says the aim is to allow buses and lorries to pass under the new road, but as a result traffic on the link will be even higher in the sky.

"No amount of fencing and shrubbery can disguise this monster dual carriageway powering its way through the centre of the com-munity," says Mr Gate, chair of the independent residents' group.

"More than 1,000 homes are situated less than 200 metres away from the road along its route. That means thousands of people will suffer exhaust fumes, noise, vibration, and light pollution."

He says it is a shame the latest exhibition was focused only on Torrisholme and that people from Slyne, North Lancaster and Halton did not get a look at how it may affect them.

"Previously unseen computer simulations were stark and didn't show the many houses that will be close to the route. But you could see how destructive the road would be," he says.

TSLM says that 76 per cent of people surveyed after seeing the original road proposals said they were against building the road.

Mr Gate adds: "I talked to people at this exhibition, and their views haven't changed they're still against the road."

TSLM has received well over 200 written protests to the road in the last few days and these will be passed onto Geraldine Smith MP, who also objects to the project.