DRIVERS are facing delays in the run-up to Christmas as one of the main travel routes through an East Lothian village is reduced to a single lane and parking suspended.

East Lothian Council has suspended parking on Longniddry Main Street and closed one lane of the road for six weeks on Monday.

Temporary traffic lights are in place as one side of the road is shut between the roundabout at the railway station and Longniddry Inn.

The move will allow Network Rail to carry out maintenance work and examine the condition of a large wall which separates the train station and tracks from Main Street.

But it will create additional parking pressures around the railway station, whose own car park is due to be extended, as well as delays for motorists trying to get to the A1 through the village.