... just 340 yards long charging motorists £2 a time to bypass closed section of main road

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...main-road.html

This is an interesting story... man builds a road in 3 days and charges £2 a time to save people the 10 mile detour around a bit of road the Council wont have fixed until at least the end of the year - between Bath and Bristol, so not exactly tiny hamlets.

The Council, of course, are complaining about it, but surely the question must be why didn't they do it? Of course building a permanent road entails all sorts of hassle, but this is clearly a temporary fix; you could impose a 10mph speed limit on it and drivers would still only be on it for about 65 seconds!