Dualling the A11
More on the local news about the costs and lack of dualling of the last piece of the A11 between London and Norwich. It’s about time it was done, but then East Anglia is very much on this dreadful not-do-anything-for-them list, as we don’t have too many Labour MPs and virtually no councillors.
I drove up to the Norfolk coast yesterday and because it was Thursday, the traffic was not too great. But try doing that journey in the rush hour or at the weekend!
Norwich needs to be connected by dual carriageway roads to Ipswich, Yarmouth, Peterborough and Newmarket. On current progress, only Newmarket will ever be done and probably in about 2020. If this was Scotland or the North of England, it would have been done years ago.
If I was to talk about trains, I could add that East Anglia gets everybody else’s cast off rolling stock. But they do work pretty well, despite what you read in the papers. Let’s have a decent Cambridge-Ipswich service.
The Anonymous Widower 
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