“We just don’t know what to do,” he said. “Should we be ordering in plants, or not ordering in plants?

“It’s just been terrible, the whole thing has been an utter nightmare and there’s literally nothing we can do.”

Ashley Behan, traffic manager at Lincolnshire County Council, said: “The road has been closed for 87 days, which I fully appreciate is far too long.

“It’s in nobody’s interest to be closed for any longer than it ought to be.”

He expected the work to be completed between 17 and 19 April and said the council would be checking to ensure work was continuing over the bank holiday weekend.

The BBC has asked Burmor Construction to comment on the latest delay.

Luke Boekstyn, a director at the firm, previously said natural conditions, including groundwater and “runnings silts”, were making the work “very difficult”.

Burmor was “naturally disappointed and apologetic” that an extension had been necessary, he added.

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