The Lanes Action Group, made up of residents from around the Wilberfoss area, are unhappy with the conditions in the surrounding lanes, saying they are inadequate for traffic.

But despite alerting local councillors and road safety chiefs, they have had little in the way of positive feedback.

A letter to East Riding Council leader Stephen Parnaby was passed to ward councillor Kay West who said the matter needed to be taken up by highways officers.

Since then the group has heard from a council engineer who has dismissed suggestions of speed reductions on the lanes.

However, group chairman Jarrod Marsden says they will not give up and pledged to push the campaign on.

He said: ”These things move slowly and can be very frustrating at times.”.

The group was formed after residents around the Newbridge Lane, Bolton Lane, Feoffee Common Lane and Sands Lane raised concerns over the number of potholes appearing, the broken road surfaces and wrecked grass verges.

Many say the closure of Spittal Bridge last year because of flood damage diverted traffic along the narrow country lanes, exacerbating the problem.

Speeding problems were highlighted, with the campaigners using an accident along Newbridge Lane in December as an example.

In this case, a teenage driver collided with a electricity pole and caused a 10-hour black-out for nearby residents.

Despite being told that a reduced speed limit could not be enforced, another senior engineer has since contacted the group to say that the grass verges will be re-seeded when the weather is sufficiently dry.

He also states that East Riding Council had been appealing to the Department of Transport for extra cash for flood-affected roads, which includes the area around Spittal Bridge.